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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Jeremie Le Hen <jlh@freebsd.org>
Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Edward Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Removal of rmt(8)? rcmd(3)?
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 10:30:30PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In August 2017 I removed FreeBSD rcmd tools (rsh, ruptime, etc).

I seem to have ruptime.

% ruptime
ruptime: no hosts in /var/rwho

> trasz@ (cc'ed) reached out to me asking if we should remove rmt(8). It
> relies on rcmd(3) which, as I understand it, is a libc function which
> implements protocol used by rshd(8). This looks like me these two
> should have been removed in 2017 as well.
> 
> Pardon my ignorance but I've just discovered about these two. Are
> there any other commands/libraries like this which are candidates to
> be removed?
> 
> Other thoughts?

There is rdump and rrestore.  dumprmt.c seems to use rcmd(3). 

-- 
Steve