Manish Jain <invalid.poin...@gmail.com> wrote: > From all the discussion I have walked through on the issue of > where to place vi, it does appear FreeBSD has a skewed policy > on the issue. There are plenty of reasons you might need access > an editor in single-user mode - editing fstab is just one. > Having to use the workarounds suggested in place of vi is not > so good, and manually moving vi to /bin is not simply a matter > of 'mv /usr/bin/vi /bin/'. > > One of the things I would dearly like to see in a future release > is vi being placed under /bin.
Maybe put something like this [untested] in /bin/vi: #!/bin/sh [ -x /usr/bin/vi ] && exec /usr/bin/vi "$@" exec /rescue/vi "$@" That should run /usr/bin/vi if it's available, else fall back to /rescue/vi. Beats linking /rescue/vi into /bin, since that would cause the statically-linked version to be used by anyone who has /bin ahead of /usr/bin in PATH, even when the dynamically-linked version is available. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
