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Re: chown in /sbin



On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 09:33:49AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 08:33:47AM +0100, Adam Hamsik wrote:
> 
> (could you fix your linebreaks, please?)
> 
> > I would like to move chown from /usr/sbin/chown to /sbin/chown while
> > I will make symbolic link from /sbin/chown to /usr/sbin/chown to stay
> > compatible. This was already discussed and most of developers thinks
> > that it's a good idea. I think that chown is part of based system and
> > should be available even if /usr is not mounted. What do you think ?
> 
> Since you need it for a standard rc.d script now, this is a good idea.

Really? In this case, I withdraw my opposition. (I'd argued that
there is /rescue/chown for the case where the operator needs to
fix things before mounting /usr.)

        -is
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