From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 13 7:18:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF07937B4C5 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:18:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id HAA18233; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:17:38 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda18231; Mon Nov 13 07:17:36 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eADFHV309931; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:17:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdMJ9929; Mon Nov 13 07:17:30 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eADFHTM01095; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:17:29 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011131517.eADFHTM01095@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdwA1089; Mon Nov 13 07:16:49 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: Will Andrews Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating rdist In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Nov 2000 14:00:45 EST." <20001112140045.K555@puck.firepipe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:16:49 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001112140045.K555@puck.firepipe.net>, Will Andrews writes: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 03:59:05AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > I have just committed a `44bsd-rdist' port. > > So the question is, do we totally remove `rdist' from the base system, > > or update it to rdist 6.1.5? > > I personally think it's better to remove it and update in ports. Cy > Schubert makes a good point (if it is valid; I didn't check and don't > know myself) that 44bsd-rdist and rdist6 are interoperable on mutally > exclusive systems. Hence, it makes sense that a system administrator > should need to look in ports for what they need. The description file from the rdist6 ports states: This version of rdist is not directly compatible with rdist distributed with 4.3BSD and subsequent vendor releases, but does indirectly provide full backward compatibility. From the rdist6(1) man page: The -Server option is recognized to provide partial back- ward compatible support for older versions of rdist which used this option to put rdist into server mode. If rdist is started with the -Server command line option, it will attempt to exec (run) the old version of rdist. This option will only work if rdist was compiled with the loca- tion of the old rdist (usually either /usr/ucb/oldrdist or /usr/old/rdist) and that program is available at run time. To support both the classic rdist and rdist6 protocols, both need to be installed. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message