On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > A friend of mine has a machine on the net whose /usr/bin directory has > disappeared. The machine has a Debian mirror, so any package is > available to be installed again, however: > > `dpkg' was in /usr/bin, so currently there is no package manager. > > `ftp' was also in /usr/bin, so if the machine would not have a Debian > mirror, no package could be downloaded (they may be "uploaded", however). > > `ar' was in /usr/bin so if you want to uncompress a .deb package by hand, > you can't. > > Question: Would not `dpkg', `ar' and `ftp' have to be in /bin > instead of /usr/bin? > > [ FSSTND says /usr/bin are just "Binaries that are not needed in > single-user mode", ha, ha... ]
But what if the /bin disappears instead of /usr/bin, then? Your proposal doesn't solve anything. If you are afraid that such problem pops up again, just copy the important utilities in both /bin and /usr/bin... -- - Vincent RENARDIAS [EMAIL PROTECTED],pipo.com,debian.org} - - Debian/GNU Linux: Pipo: WAW: - - http://www.fr.debian.org http://www.pipo.com http://www.waw.com - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - "La fonctionnalite Son Visuel vous delivre des avertissements visuels." - - [Message durant l'installation de Windows95] :wq -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
