From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) Subject: Binaries on line (was Re: A few question, mostly about pl8) Date: 15 Apr 1993 07:48:05 GMT
In article <SCT.93Apr14222655@damsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes:
>> 3) Now that I have upgraded my kernel to pl8, I assume that there
>> are (or will be) updates to some of the affected bins. Most of mine are
>> probably quite old. Any idea what ftp sites I should check and which
>> commands need to be updated?
Actually, the quote was from someone else, but I haven't any idea who.
I should like to mention that there is available for anonymous ftp
a large collection of Linux binaries (in fact a whole system). This
is at ftp.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.203.12] in /pub/linux/binaries. The area
is actually NFS mounted by several local Linux installations to save on
disk space. If you want a single command, you might want to check there.
However, (1) these commands are sometimes compiled with hard-coded
pathnames which may not suit your taste; for example, shutdown looks
for /bin/umount, not /etc/umount, and (2) this area is constantly being
updated, so please don't assume it will remain the same from day to day.
-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk