> 
> > I understand the point.  I wouldn't do this for any other executables, but 
> > IMHO ld.so is a special case (the only must be statically linked binary).
> > I don't have a single statically linked binary on my system.
> 
> In a phrase: "BRAVE MAN!"
> 
> i'd at least keep init, sh, fsck, and mount statically linked.  but
> then i guess that's 'conservative.'

I would echo that ``BRAVE MAN''.  I am currently having to do support on
HPUX systems.. and boy have they ever made a mess of single user boot.  You
have to have so much sh*t working correctly now to get booted single user
it is not funny.

I do not see a real problem with doing what this person has done as long
as you have that ``floppy'' around, the problems I have seen with HPUX have
always been recoverable by booting from the CDROM thank god!

(One really annoying one that I have had passed up to HP is that if you
are using NIS the + in /etc/passwd blows single user boot up royally...
real stupid thing is init wants a password for root, so it goes and does
a getpwent, which then sees the + and tries to do NIS queries.. well.. I
am afraid that is just not going to work single user HP... :-(..

Sorry for HP bashing on this list, just wanted to point out that you can
take this stuff too far some times as I am sure Chris is aware :-)..

> chris


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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
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