jl42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) (04/13/88)
There is a command on Berkeley systems called "install" which copies
a file, changes its modes, does careful copying, maybe even does owner
changes, and which some software distributions use. In such cases, it
is necessary to hand edit every use of the "install" command in a
makefile to the appropriate cp, mv, chown, chmod, chgrp, etc...
commands. What a nuisance.
Anyone got such a command for Xenix (or SysV in general?)
Thanks
Jay Libove
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UUCP: ...!{pitt | bellcore} !darth!libove!libovegeoff@ism780c.UUCP (Geoff Kimbrough) (04/14/88)
In article <QWMbkNy00VoDEdflM8@andrew.cmu.edu> jl42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) writes: >There is a command on Berkeley systems called "install" which copies >Anyone got such a command for Xenix (or SysV in general?) System V.3 has the install command in /etc. I don't know why, but my guess is that since it's a shell script that may attempt to set the SUID bit on files owned by just about anybody, you have to run it as root to *guarantee* that it does the right thing. put /etc in your PATH and you should be OK, (don't know about Xenix, never used it.) -- Geoffrey Kimbrough -- Director of Dangerous Activities INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Santa Monica, California sdcrdcf!ism780c!geoff || seismo!ism780c!geoff || ima!geoff "Every morning I read the obituaries, if I'm not listed, I go to work."
daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton) (04/15/88)
In article <QWMbkNy00VoDEdflM8@andrew.cmu.edu> jl42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) writes: |There is a command on Berkeley systems called "install" which copies |a file, changes its modes, does careful copying, maybe even does owner |changes, and which some software distributions use. In such cases, it |is necessary to hand edit every use of the "install" command in a |makefile to the appropriate cp, mv, chown, chmod, chgrp, etc... |commands. What a nuisance. |Anyone got such a command for Xenix (or SysV in general?) The following is my rendition of install. Near as I can tell, it works just like Berkeley's install. I don't thinks it has any bugs, but you never know... :-) cat >install <<'EOF' : # # @(#)install 1.1 1/31/88 # # install - install executables # PATH=/bin:/usr/bin IFS=" " PROGNAME=`basename $0` USAGE="usage: $PROGNAME [-cs] [-m mode] [-o owner] [-g group] binary location" cmd=/bin/mv mode=755 owner=bin group=bin strip=false set -- `getopt 'csm:o:g:' $*` if [ $? -ne 0 ] then echo $USAGE >&2;exit 1 fi for option do case $option in -c) cmd=/bin/cp; shift;; -s) strip=true; shift;; -m) mode=$2; shift;shift;; -o) owner=$2; shift;shift;; -g) group=$2; shift;shift;; --) shift;break;; esac done if [ $# -ne 2 ] then echo $USAGE >&2;exit 1 fi file=`basename $1` loc=$2 if [ ! -f $file ] then echo "$PROGNAME: cannot access '$file'" >&2; exit 2 fi set -- `ls -ldi $file` finode=$1 if [ -d $loc ] then loc=${loc}/$file fi if [ -f $loc ] then set -- `ls -ldi $loc` linode=$1 if [ $file = $loc -o $finode = $linode ] then echo "$PROGNAME: '$file' would copy onto itself" >&2; exit 2 fi fi rm -f $loc if $cmd $file $loc then : else echo "$PROGNAME: cannot put '$file' at '$lo
mike@cimcor.UUCP (Michael Grenier) (04/15/88)
From article <QWMbkNy00VoDEdflM8@andrew.cmu.edu>, by jl42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove): > There is a command on Berkeley systems called "install" which copies > a file, changes its modes, does careful copying, maybe even does owner > Anyone got such a command for Xenix (or SysV in general?) Strange, System 5 does have the install command, at least this Microport box does as well as the cpset command which allows the permission modes to be placed on the command line. It shouldn't be hard to write though. -Mike Grenier {ihnp4, amdahl, rutgers}!bungia!cimcor!mike