 To: Johnny Billquist <> From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
List: current-users Date: 08/27/2002 21:07:39     Date:
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:25:58 +0200 (CEST)     From:        Johnny
Billquist <>     Message-ID:
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| I don't want it to access any other file, be dependant on any
other files,   | or break when some other file is missing,
that's all.  But why is it acceptable for /usr/bin/su or
/usr/bin/gcc or /usr/bin/make or ... to break, and not the
things in /bin ?  If an important system file (of which there
are hundreds, from /etc/passwd to /bin/sh and /dev/lots and ...)
goes missing, then it needs to be recovered.   In some cases
that is going to mean a single user boot from the console (in
others, boot from a backup device - floopy, CD, or another
drive).   The ability to do all of that remains.  So, once
again, why?