On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> I seemed to have lost /bin/kill. Now, I have /usr/bin/kill, but "poff" > (and possibily others) are looking for /bin/kill. I fixed poff, but I > don't know what else might get broken due to the disappearance of > /bin/kill. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone can shed some light on the > "movement" of kill? I'd think I'd still want a /bin/kill in case /usr > isn't mounted. The culprit seems to be "bsdutils", but I'm not sure. > > Ciao, As a matter of fact in newer bash-es (I'm not sure since which version) kill is a shell-built-in command, i. e. there is no separate executable for kill (in neither /bin/kill, nor /usr/bin/kill). Of course you can "ln -s /usr/bin/kill to /bin/", or write a script like: #!/bin/sh kill $@ and put it in /usr/bin; however, all new packages should be aware of the in-building of the command and not use explicit paths (like "/bin/kill"). Hope this is delightful, Pavel
