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To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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Subject: Re: rstartd on freefall 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 May 1997 03:36:01 BST."
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Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 20:21:39 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Any chance of someone with God privs doing a
> 
> # ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/rstartd /usr/bin/rstartd
> 
> on freefall ?  TIA.

None at all. :-)

Seriously, putting arbitrary things into /usr/bin is just evil and
every time we've allowed that kind of hackery on freefall, we've
regretted it deeply come the next upgrade and suddenly all sorts of
things are falling over even though we have a perfectly good OS
installation and /usr/local & /usr/X11R6 are resurrected properly.

I won't even go into the evils of rsh based (vs ssh based) execution
protocols - the /usr/bin issue is enough to kill your request stone
dead. :-|

						Jordan