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Re: What happened to mined?


From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:17:08 -0700

On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 06:09:26 +0800
Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> > :
> > :After all the effort to get a lite static-compiled 'emergency' editor 
> > :into the environment, it seems to have gone walkabout.
> > :
> > :Have I missed something?
> > :
> > :Bill
> > 
> >     It was committed a while ago.  Any system build should have it now.
> >     /usr/src/bin/mined.
> > 
> > 					-Matt
> > 					Matthew Dillon 
> > 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ??
> 
> More puzzled now than before...  I can see making things 'optional' and 
> requiring initial migration where appropriate as part of a sysadmin's 
> 'personalization' of tools, as with bash (license issue), or joe.
> 
> But '/usr/src' is an empty directory on a default install from ISO CD. 
> At least, mine is.
> 
> And, if /usr is mounted then vi, joe, emacs, whatever .. and their libs, 
> would be just as 'available', so no particular need for 'static' mined.
> 
> To the extent the objective was to have an emergency editor 'always near 
> to hand' to help get out of trouble, i.e. - in /bin or /sbin as a static 
> (stripped) binary in case one had to edit /etc/rc(whatever) or 
> /etc/fstab - having it in /usr/src/bin seems to run counter.
> 
> ..even if it was actually there...

What ISO are you looking for it on?

-Chris

> Bill
> 
> 
> 



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