Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:59:45 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.co.uk> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cp MAKEDEV /dev - on a system with devfs Message-ID: <20010315205945.A2793@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <3AB195AC.3520C348@freebsd-services.co.uk>; from paul@freebsd-services.co.uk on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:25:16AM %2B0000 References: <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> <53555.984415341@critter> <200103130311.f2D3BFB10353@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010313223822.O96832@hand.dotat.at> <200103140204.VAA42698@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <3AB195AC.3520C348@freebsd-services.co.uk>
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:25:16AM +0000, Paul Richards wrote: > Garrett Wollman wrote: >> >> <<On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:38:22 +0000, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> said: >> >>> There's one real oddity in FreeBSD: >> >>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 13 Jan 28 13:42 rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt* >> >> The pathname of the `rmt' program is a fundamental part of the `rmt' >> ``protocol'' such as it is. We've been over this one many times. > > Maybe the time's come to just deprecate rmt, I'd be surprised if there > are many people still using it. You don't have Digital Unix system do you? I use rmt all the time because I couldn't get amanda to work on a 64-bit OS a few years ago. rmt works and so I've haven't tried any newer versions of amanda. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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