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- From: deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca (Theo de Raadt)
- Subject: 386BSD: /bin -> /usr/bin reorganization
- Message-ID: <DERAADT.92Nov17041728@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca>
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- Organization: little lizard city
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:17:28 GMT
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- 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
-
- This may not seem significant, but I am of course running with not just
- one partition, but many:
-
- Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
- /dev/wd0a 31231 5697 22410 20% /
- /dev/wd0g 93871 76735 7748 91% /usr
- /dev/wd0e 31231 41 28066 0% /tmp
- /dev/wd1a 318294 134528 151936 47% /gecko.userb
- /dev/wd0h 31231 1 28106 0% /gecko.usera
- newt:/newt.usera 564164 416208 91539 82% /newt.usera
-
- I'm really happy with this change. It's always a pain when I write programs
- and I want to give an absolute path to a program. When the program is written
- for different architectures, things like uptime can end up being in one of
- 5 places!
-
- Anyone interested in merging a change like this one in?
- <tdr.
-
- ps. Anyone interested in doing this themselves, easiest is to do this...
- 1. cp /bin/* /sbin
- 2. edit init.c and change it so that it runs programs from /sbin
- instead of /bin
- 3. install new init; reboot
- 4. cp /bin/* /usr/bin; rm -rf /bin; cd /; ln -s /usr/bin
- 5. Delete all the unneccesary programs that are now in /usr/sbin
- Note: Many are required for rc and rc.single to run.
- --
-
- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca
-