Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 18:56:50 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bug in tar Message-ID: <199502191756.SAA01199@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <m0rfWsO-000K2wC@pelican.pelican.com> from "Pete Carah" at Feb 17, 95 09:53:00 am
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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. ;-)
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