Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 04:53:17 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rstartd on freefall Message-ID: <199705290353.EAA16919@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 May 1997 20:21:39 PDT." <25200.864876099@time.cdrom.com>
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> > Any chance of someone with God privs doing a
> >
> > # ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/rstartd /usr/bin/rstartd
> >
> > on freefall ? TIA.
>
> None at all. :-)
>
> Seriously, putting arbitrary things into /usr/bin is just evil and
> every time we've allowed that kind of hackery on freefall, we've
> regretted it deeply come the next upgrade and suddenly all sorts of
> things are falling over even though we have a perfectly good OS
> installation and /usr/local & /usr/X11R6 are resurrected properly.
>
> I won't even go into the evils of rsh based (vs ssh based) execution
> protocols - the /usr/bin issue is enough to kill your request stone
> dead. :-|
So rstart is broken by design. Let me guess. This has been argued
before, and the xfree86 guys won't allow an absolute path to rstartd
(via say a flag to rstart).... :|
How about when login classes make it to freefall ? Having a default
PATH that includes /usr/X11R6/bin should do the trick I think. I'll
just wait :)
Thanks anyway.
> Jordan
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