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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: rstartd on freefall 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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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

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....