Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:57:46 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rsh/Rlogin/Rcmd & friends Message-ID: <39C4F80A.FB1F244@softweyr.com> References: <20000915143515.N40658@radon.gryphonsoft.com> <200009151956.MAA75808@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20000915145337.Q40658@radon.gryphonsoft.com>
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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.
Some enterprising young programmer could make rdump/rrestore use ssh as a
transport for starting rmt. This would eliminate this problem entirely.
Perhaps sdump and srestore?
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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