Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:22:59AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 08:13:37PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:41:19AM +0200, Wolfgang Jährling wrote:
> > > Of course you do, because you don't understand what /hurd is about. It
> > > is about the Hurd server binaries, which are started by users and should
> > > not be hidden in a directory like /lib/you/cant/find/me/.
> >
> > So they should be in /bin?
>
> No, because they should not be in the PATH. As I have said before:
>
> 'You don't want them to be visible in /bin because running them on the
> command line the normal way fails with "Must be started as translator."'
[jaqque@athena:~]% cat /etc/debian_version
3.0
[jaqque@athena:~]% uname -a
Linux athena 2.4.17 #1 Fri May 10 01:40:37 PDT 2002 i686 unknown
[jaqque@athena:~]% echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
[jaqque@athena:~]% which login
/bin/login
[jaqque@athena:~]% login
No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh"
zsh: exit 1 login
-john
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