From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Feb 19 18:14:04 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA23843 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 19 Feb 1995 18:14:04 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA23827 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 1995 18:13:50 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA10354; Sun, 19 Feb 1995 19:23:56 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id TAA20399 for bugs@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 19 Feb 1995 19:23:55 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA01199 for bugs@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 19 Feb 1995 18:56:51 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199502191756.SAA01199@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Bug in tar To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 18:56:50 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: from "Pete Carah" at Feb 17, 95 09:53:00 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 797 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Pete Carah wrote: > > >file /etc/rmt > >/etc/rmt: symbolic link to ../usr/etc/rmt > > >So you see it's not quite so simple. If no one objects, I'll add > >the link to the install rule in rmt.. > > Main reason it's not that simple is that we can make that change to > our own sources all we want, but it won't help the user on a Sun or > SGI or HP, etc etc. trying to use our tape. The symlink really has > to be there. ... and btw., it would be a _very bad_ idea to rename the ``outgoing call'' for the rmt utility into /usr/sbin/rmt or something else, since this will just prevent us from using any arbitrary box as a remote rmt server. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)