From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 15:32:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB5E16A4CE; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:32:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from shaft.techsupport.co.uk (shaft.techsupport.co.uk [212.250.77.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E197343D1D; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:32:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from cpc2-cdif3-6-0-cust204.cdif.cable.ntl.com ([81.103.67.204] helo=shrike.submonkey.net ident=mailnull) by shaft.techsupport.co.uk with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1Av35a-0001hx-LD; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:32:46 +0000 Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1Av35Y-000KjJ-Up; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:32:44 +0000 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:32:44 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Colin Percival Message-ID: <20040222233244.GO45593@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Colin Percival , Wes Peters , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200402221003.i1MA3PW0024791@repoman.freebsd.org> <6.0.1.1.1.20040222133540.03c296b0@imap.sfu.ca> <200402221500.38486.wes@softweyr.com> <6.0.1.1.1.20040222230357.03ca6ec0@imap.sfu.ca> <20040222231649.GN45593@submonkey.net> <6.0.1.1.1.20040222231909.03abc488@imap.sfu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uRjmd8ppyyws0Tml" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040222231909.03abc488@imap.sfu.ca> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: Wes Peters cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin Makefile nologin.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:32:49 -0000 --uRjmd8ppyyws0Tml Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:22:56PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote: > At 23:16 22/02/2004, Ceri Davies wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:14:05PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote: > >> I wonder if the optimal solution would be to have > >> /sbin/nologin compiled without syslog support and /usr/sbin/nologin > >> built from the same source but with syslog support enabled. > > > >It sounds to me like the optimal solution would actually be to move it. >=20 > Sure, if you want to confuse people who have spent over a decade > expecting it to be in /sbin. We've got to leave *something* in /sbin > for at least the near future, even if it's minimalist. I'd agree, but having two programs with the same name and different behaviour has much more potential to confuse people (especially Solaris admins, where /sbin and /usr/sbin seem to be frequently the same directory). Ceri --=20 --uRjmd8ppyyws0Tml Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAOTwcocfcwTS3JF8RAr3TAJ4ro3KBUEqiIQOwMPkjVc9+HtrhvACeNn+M n+ExAO7GFwA9+5mFERWjMrE= =fQMd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uRjmd8ppyyws0Tml--