-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- A friend of mine has a machine on the net whose /usr/bin directory has disappeared. The machine has a Debian mirror, so any package is available to be installed again, however:
`dpkg' was in /usr/bin, so currently there is no package manager. `ftp' was also in /usr/bin, so if the machine would not have a Debian mirror, no package could be downloaded (they may be "uploaded", however). `ar' was in /usr/bin so if you want to uncompress a .deb package by hand, you can't. Question: Would not `dpkg', `ar' and `ftp' have to be in /bin instead of /usr/bin? [ FSSTND says /usr/bin are just "Binaries that are not needed in single-user mode", ha, ha... ] Thanks. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCUAgUBNLfTKyqK7IlOjMLFAQHdjAP0C+/m2L5EQHJkxr5nST87YkP4tdMcuBnn m8KnGL5b/pdExbq5MOZYf1soNstZINjkzJib9DqIciSDSfPeDg4YrN4qoF2BnJgo KS8RAV/xjx/5YH+3o0dvH6WdoVhv8r8qysbCZezq6ldQbjuOHbpbnefZiWhg/ZzM n52rgb1FPw== =Fhq+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .