From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Apr 18 12:31:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D8C37BB43 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA23870 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:31:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id VAA01983 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:31:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F062037B648; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:29:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA98712; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:29:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:29:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Sue Blake Cc: "C. Stephen Gunn" , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Outdated rdist in FreeBSD Base In-Reply-To: <20000418184259.U3179@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Sue Blake wrote: > v6 works fundamentally differently to and is incompatible with the old > rdist, if ours is the same as the old rdist that was in BSD/OS. It is > quite unfortunate that two programs using different protocols have been > given the same name. If this is true then we could have two rdist ports, an rdist5 one which is compatible with legacy systems and the more modern rdist6 port. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message