On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, David O'Brien wrote:
> This is a heads up to let you know that you need to
>
> rm -f /sbin/chwon /bin/chgrp
>
> after your next `make world'. Additionally you need to install a new
> /dev/MAKEDEV (mergmaster(8) will assist you in this).
>
> A while back I moved the install location for chown and chgrp from
> /usr/sbin and /usr/bin to /sbin and /bin. This was because of
> MAKEDEV(8)'s dependence on them, and thus forced /usr to be mounted for
> correct operation of MAKEDEV(8). Of course that is bad since you could
> easily be trying to create the device node to even mount /usr.
>
> This week, I have added chown-like functionality to mknod(8) and restored
> chown & chgrp back to their previous locations. MAKEDEV has been
> updated to use the new functionality of mknod(8).
>
> However, do to this moving around of chown & chgrp's install location,
> you may easily have stale versions in /sbin and /bin.
>
> --
> -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
David, I just noticed that this note in 4.0's RELNOTES about the
relocation doesn't appear applicable anymore:
`chown' has moved from "/usr/sbin" to "/sbin". This is due to
dependencies on it by `MAKEDEV'. Please update any scripts that
have "/usr/sbin" hardcoded in them. Since `chgrp' is a link to
`chown', `chgrp' has moved from "/usr/bin" to "/bin" to reside on
the same partition.
Kelly
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