From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Apr 19 5:39:34 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 D9CF937BB3C for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 05:39:28 -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 OAA01003 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:39:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA00508 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:39:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dustdevil.waterspout.com (standpipe.waterspout.com [208.13.60.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75EA637B6E0; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:32:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from csg@waterspout.com) Received: from waterspout.com (csg@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dustdevil.waterspout.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA05226; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:39:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from csg@waterspout.com) Message-Id: <200004190139.UAA05226@dustdevil.waterspout.com> To: Kris Kennaway , Sue Blake Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Outdated rdist in FreeBSD Base In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:30:33 MST." From: csg@waterspout.com (C. Stephen Gunn) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <5222.956108377.1@waterspout.com> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:39:38 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:30:33 MST, Kris Kennaway wrote: > But surely thats what the rdist5 port would solve? If there are protocol > incompatabilities (and csg seems to think otherwise) then you or someone > who understands the issues just needs to write up something for the > handbook, stick a pointer to it in RELNOTES.TXT, and people with legacy > installations will know to install rdist5, not rdist6. Perhaps we should fix the rdist6 implementation to not look for "oldrdist" but to look for /usr/local/bin/rdist5. Then again, I'm still looking why the protocols are that different. I know there are enhancements, but I've not ascertained what they all are yet. I still (reluctantly) advocate removing rdist from the base system, but the question of BSD44 products (rdist, csh) that aren't in the base any more is still unanswered. There have been several things bugging me about rdist 6, and this pushed it on my "investigate and repair as necessary" list. - Steve -- C. Stephen Gunn URL: http://www.waterspout.com/ WaterSpout Communications, Inc. Email: csg@waterspout.com 427 North 6th Street Phone: +1 765.742.6628 Lafayette, IN 47901 Fax: +1 765.742.0646 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message