Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27623; Wed, 20 Dec 95 14:19:13 EST Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA26641; Wed, 20 Dec 95 14:19:12 EST Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA23013; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 14:19:08 -0500 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA03440 Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:20:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA03390 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:20:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from wsantee.oz.net (wsantee.oz.net [204.118.240.207]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA03384 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:20:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wsantee@localhost) by wsantee.oz.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA04052; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:20:15 -0800 From: Wes Santee Message-Id: <199512201720.JAA04052@wsantee.oz.net> Subject: Re: replaceing usr/bin/login To: shovey@buffnet.net (Stephen Hovey) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:20:14 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Stephen Hovey" at Dec 20, 95 10:10:59 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Stephen Hovey sez: > > I cannot for love or money put the new binary in. > [...] > Any ideas? > Well, I'm not sure how advisable it would be, but the most brute-force method of file removal I can think of is to 'clri' the first i-node, and tell 'fsck' to clean up the rest by removing the leftover pieces. Cheers, -- ( -Wes Santee | ) ( (backup) | No one told you when to run... ) ( http://www.oz.net/~wsantee \------------------------------- ) ( finger for PGP info Powered by FreeBSD )