[plug] /bin2 ?

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Tue Aug 10 15:46:47 WST 2004


On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:38:53PM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> I've just noticed something slightly odd on a debian sid machine.  Some
> of the daemons have a /bin2 entry in their PATH environment
> variables[1].  I can't find out where this came from.

At least Debian's initrds, utilise /bin2 to temporarily accomodate
using a read/write bin on a read-only initrd. I don't quite
understand why, but it does :) The scripts of initrd-tools should
offer some more insight.

Bernard.

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