From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 14 00:07:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA23048 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 00:07:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA23035 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 00:06:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA22156; Thu, 14 May 1998 07:59:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199805140659.HAA22156@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Brian Somers , Matthew Cashdollar , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Charles Mott Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 May 1998 14:44:26 PDT." <11526.895095866@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 07:59:07 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > When I originally picked up ppp, it used this name.... when it was > > syslogd()ified, it kept the name. There's no good reason (except > > that it's now what everyone knows). > > Hey, speaking of names, how about renaming (over time) the rather > ill-named -alias flag to -nat? :-) Probably not a bad idea. libalias would have to change to libnat too though (for consistency).... Any views Charles (cc'd) ? > - Jordan > -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message