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Date:      Sun, 19 Feb 1995 18:56:50 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Bug in tar
Message-ID:  <199502191756.SAA01199@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <m0rfWsO-000K2wC@pelican.pelican.com> from "Pete Carah" at Feb 17, 95 09:53:00 am

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As Pete Carah wrote:
> 
> >file /etc/rmt
> >/etc/rmt:       symbolic link to ../usr/etc/rmt
> 
> >So you see it's not quite so simple.  If no one objects, I'll add
> >the link to the install rule in rmt..
> 
> Main reason it's not that simple is that we can make that change to
> our own sources all we want, but it won't help the user on a Sun or
> SGI or HP, etc etc. trying to use our tape.  The symlink really has
> to be there.

... and btw., it would be a _very bad_ idea to rename the ``outgoing
call'' for the rmt utility into /usr/sbin/rmt or something else, since
this will just prevent us from using any arbitrary box as a remote rmt
server.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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