From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Feb 18 15:28:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from iscserv7.nepustil.net (NS.Nepustil.NET [193.96.243.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 721A437B491 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:28:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from peotl.homeip.net (tuebpool-135.pm3.nepustil.net [212.71.200.135]) by iscserv7.nepustil.net (Sendmail) with ESMTP id 02C4579EC7 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:28:47 +0100 (CET) Received: (from thz@localhost) by peotl.homeip.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1INMa759622 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:22:36 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from thz) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:18:22 +0100 From: Thomas Zenker To: Nate Williams Subject: Re: Wish List (was: Re: The /usr/bin/games bikeshed again) Message-ID: <20010219001822.A58349@peotl.homeip.net> References: <200102161737.f1GHbQ946702@gratis.grondar.za> <14989.27426.877852.291707@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <14989.27426.877852.291707@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:02:10AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:02:10AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > > > I wouldn't be sorry to see the r* utilities (rsh, rcp, rmt...) > > > disappear either. > > > > I'd love to see those go, myself. > > I'd be very angry to see them go. Not every FreeBSD machine is > connected to the internet. R* utilities are very commonly used, and > we're not gaining anything but removing them. > > Disabling them from /etc/inetd.conf is barely acceptable, IMO. > It's ok do disable them in inetd.conf, but to make them dissapear. I myself have to support old firmware in old instruments, the cross compilers are running on old hp300 only... to much trouble to make any changes to the hp. No to disapearance of R* utilities. Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message