Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:01:45 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin Makefile nologin.c Message-ID: <20040224180145.GC33635@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040222231909.03abc488@imap.sfu.ca> 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>
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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. > > 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. Why not install a static nologin to /usr/sbin, and make /sbin/nologin a symlink to /usr/sbin/nologin ?
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