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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD: /bin -> /usr/bin reorganization
Message-ID: <CGD.92Nov18155017@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:50:17 GMT
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In-reply-to: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu's message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:46:04 GMT
In article <DERAADT.92Nov17041728@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca> deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
>Among a large number of other Sunifications I have made to my 386BSD
>system, I've made this one:
>
>lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 8 Oct 24 21:05 bin@ -> /usr/bin
>
there are problems with this: notably, straight bsd systems
aren't "meant" to mount /usr when they're brought up into single user
mode.
i assume you're running with / and /usr physically residing in the same
partition. otherwise, i don't see how this could work -- sh is in
/bin, so you couldn't even run /etc/rc, if / and /usr were in different
partitions.
I think any Sun admin who saw you running with / and /usr in the same
partition would die laughing.
there are many more changes which are necessary to move stuff
from /bin into /usr/bin, and make it 'stick' properly.
Chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
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