Re: CVS commit: src/etc/rc.d

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, David Holland wrote:
> > XXX. Why is chown in /usr/sbin ? it should be moved to /sbin
>
> Because historically nothing needed to be chowned during boot because
> it was all root.
>
> This is no longer true, for lvm and other things, so let's take a deep
> breath and move chown. I don't like the idea of having rc.d scripts
> depend on /rescue.

Seconded (on the "don't depend on /rescue" part).
FWIW:
        fehu.org% cat /etc/debian_version
        squeeze/sid
        fehu.org% which chown
        /bin/chown


 - Hubert