Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:29:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rsh/Rlogin/Rcmd & friends Message-ID: <200009152129.OAA76593@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000915145337.Q40658@radon.gryphonsoft.com> from Will Andrews at "Sep 15, 2000 02:53:37 pm"
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Will Andrews wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 12:56:10PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > > What are the consequences of your proposal with the use of > > rdump/rrestore from another (non-FreeBSD) machine into a > > tape drive equipped FreeBSD box? > > What consequences? Remember, we'll still have ports for these things. > It only matters as far as new installations go. Post-install operations > are unimportant. > rdump/rrestore (on at least Tru64 Unix) expect to find /etc/rmt on the remote machine. Other non-FreeBSD Unices probably also expect to find /etc/rmt. troutmask:kargl[268] ls -l /etc/rmt l--------- 1 root wheel 13 Nov 17 1998 /etc/rmt@ -> /usr/sbin/rmt Are you advocating that your port will create the proper symlink? /etc/rmt@ -> /usr/local/sbin/rmt Isn't this against the principles of "The Ports Collection". Note rmt(8) states "Rmt is normally started up with an rexec(3) or rcmd(3) call." -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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