From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 28 23:51:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA29318 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 May 1997 23:51:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA29292 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 23:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA05918 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 29 May 1997 08:51:36 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA03261; Thu, 29 May 1997 08:50:30 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970529085030.UG61779@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 08:50:30 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rstartd on freefall References: <199705290353.EAA16919@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <25691.864880799@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <25691.864880799@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on May 28, 1997 21:39:59 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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).... :| > > I don't recall that it was ever discussed. I've certainly never heard > of anyone actually using it, at least not until just now. :-) It has recently been discussed on the XFree86 list. Btw., Brian, you should actually complain at the inventor of your shell. :-) If he had made a provision for a .xxxrc file as all nice shells do (csh, tcsh, bash, zsh -- no, no discussions, please :), it would be simple for you to extend your $PATH on startup. Mr. Korn decided to invent this crappy idea of $ENV, which has now even benn half-withdrawn (no $ENV sourcing for non-interactive shells). It's IMHO a dead-born child, and i regret we gotta support this braindeadness at all, since Posix blindly blessed so many of the misfeatures of the Korn shell. I wonder whether we should allow for a .shrc file, at least as a compile-time option. Of course, nothing to be added to Jordan's comment regarding ssh vs. rsh. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)