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Date:      Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:22:22 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked
Message-ID:  <20031123012222.GB11523@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <3FBE8D92.6080205@acm.org>
References:  <FPEBKMIFGFHCGLLKBLMMCEDCCDAA.ghelmer@palisadesys.com> <3FBE8D92.6080205@acm.org>

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On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:11:30PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >Thanks to /rescue and the live filesystem archives on
> >current.freebsd.org, I was able to recover ....
> >...  I could have used the ftp client (or fetch) in /rescue :-)
> 
> Yes, fetch would be useful.  I imagine a lot of people
> in emergency situations will need to pull things over
> a network connection.  Looks like it would only add about
> 65k (20k for fetch, another 45k for libfetch which isn't
> already in the crunched /rescue binary).
> 
> Submit a PR on this....

Please, NO.  There wasn't an FTP client available for this type of
recovery pre-/rescue, there shouldn't be one now.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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