From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 2 11:44:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9036937B401; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 11:44:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ACD843E6E; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 11:44:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA2JiU0N090931; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 11:44:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA2JiUFE000695; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 11:44:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA2JiUho000694; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 11:44:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 11:44:30 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: John Hay Cc: Mark Murray , "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: What is user uucp good for? Message-ID: <20021102194430.GA669@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <200211021005.gA2A5qd0069343@grimreaper.grondar.org> <200211021101.gA2B1Yla091332@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211021101.gA2B1Yla091332@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:01:34PM +0200, John Hay wrote: > > > Now that uucp is no longer in the base system, is there any reason to > > > keep user uucp in /usr/src/etc/master.passwd? > > > > Probably not. If you remove this, please coordinate an upgrade > > to the net/freebsd-uucp port the get the user added there. > > Also remember that /dev/cua* is owned by uucp. Maybe we should leave it for after 5.0. These "last minute" removals of apparently non-important things do tend to open pandora's box once in a while. It's not broken, so there's no rush... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message