Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 08:50:30 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rstartd on freefall Message-ID: <19970529085030.UG61779@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <25691.864880799@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on May 28, 1997 21:39:59 -0700 References: <199705290353.EAA16919@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <25691.864880799@time.cdrom.com>
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > So rstart is broken by design. Let me guess. This has been argued > > before, and the xfree86 guys won't allow an absolute path to rstartd > > (via say a flag to rstart).... :| > > I don't recall that it was ever discussed. I've certainly never heard > of anyone actually using it, at least not until just now. :-) It has recently been discussed on the XFree86 list. Btw., Brian, you should actually complain at the inventor of your shell. :-) If he had made a provision for a .xxxrc file as all nice shells do (csh, tcsh, bash, zsh -- no, no discussions, please :), it would be simple for you to extend your $PATH on startup. Mr. Korn decided to invent this crappy idea of $ENV, which has now even benn half-withdrawn (no $ENV sourcing for non-interactive shells). It's IMHO a dead-born child, and i regret we gotta support this braindeadness at all, since Posix blindly blessed so many of the misfeatures of the Korn shell. I wonder whether we should allow for a .shrc file, at least as a compile-time option. Of course, nothing to be added to Jordan's comment regarding ssh vs. rsh. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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