Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 08:19:18 -0600 (MDT) From: David G Andersen <danderse@cs.utah.edu> To: mike@argos.org (Mike Nowlin) Cc: jwyatt@rwsystems.net, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeSSH Message-ID: <199910141419.IAA09665@faith.cs.utah.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9910140229320.19721-100000@jason.argos.org> from "Mike Nowlin" at Oct 14, 99 02:42:42 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Lo and behold, Mike Nowlin once said:
>
> If we're going to entertain the idea of making UUCP a port, we should
> entertain the idea of replacing it with something equally suited to moving
> files over a modem, and FTP+PPP doesn't qualify -- too many points of
> failure. I hate to admit it, but C-Kermit comes to mind. You need to
> have SOMETHING in there that lets you do two key things - move files, and
> talk directly to a serial port. Minicom works, but it relies on also
> having zmodem, etc. installed as well.
Note that I wasn't suggesting not making it a part of the base install
- I kind of like the base install, even if it contains things I don't use.
(I actually do use UUCP on one of my machines for backup email).
What I *was* suggesting was a way for interested people to make
slightly more fine-grained decisions about what "parts" of the base
install they wanted to install. So someone going for a minimal setup
would be saved the pain of later going and manually removing files and
such (and then needing to do the same each time they upgrade).
-Dave
--
work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199910141419.IAA09665>