HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked
David O'Brien
obrien at freebsd.org
Sat Nov 22 17:22:26 PST 2003
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:11:30PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >Thanks to /rescue and the live filesystem archives on
> >current.freebsd.org, I was able to recover ....
> >... I could have used the ftp client (or fetch) in /rescue :-)
>
> Yes, fetch would be useful. I imagine a lot of people
> in emergency situations will need to pull things over
> a network connection. Looks like it would only add about
> 65k (20k for fetch, another 45k for libfetch which isn't
> already in the crunched /rescue binary).
>
> Submit a PR on this....
Please, NO. There wasn't an FTP client available for this type of
recovery pre-/rescue, there shouldn't be one now.
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-- David (obrien at FreeBSD.org)
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