From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Sep 17 9:49: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7494237B424 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:48:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13ahlC-0000Z4-00; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:57:46 -0600 Message-ID: <39C4F80A.FB1F244@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:57:46 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Andrews Cc: Steve Kargl , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rsh/Rlogin/Rcmd & friends References: <20000915143515.N40658@radon.gryphonsoft.com> <200009151956.MAA75808@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20000915145337.Q40658@radon.gryphonsoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will Andrews wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 12:56:10PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > > What are the consequences of your proposal with the use of > > rdump/rrestore from another (non-FreeBSD) machine into a > > tape drive equipped FreeBSD box? > > What consequences? Remember, we'll still have ports for these things. > It only matters as far as new installations go. Post-install operations > are unimportant. Some enterprising young programmer could make rdump/rrestore use ssh as a transport for starting rmt. This would eliminate this problem entirely. Perhaps sdump and srestore? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message