From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 21 1:40: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtppzh.pzh.nl (webshield.pzh.nl [194.178.168.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A1EF15452 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 01:40:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from MULHUIJZEN@PZH.NL) Received: FROM smtp.pzh.nl BY smtppzh.pzh.nl ; Fri Jan 21 10:39:00 2000 0000 Received: from PZH40-1-Message_Server by smtp.pzh.nl with Novell_GroupWise; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:39:06 +0100 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:38:55 +0100 From: "ROGIER MULHUIJZEN" To: Subject: Re: Why was rsh removed from the fixit floppy? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This discussion sort of sparked my interest, so I started looking at what exactly is on the fixit floppy. As I expected there was a load of crunched binaries (interesting technique btw) but my eye fell on tar. It wasn't a hardlink to the crunched binary like the others, it was a shell script. The script basically translates tar commands to cpio commands, which makes sense, since the cpio binary is a LOT smaller than tar. But there's no cpio on the fixit floppy....... And there's no ifconfig on the floppy either, so why even bother with telnet/ftp/mount_nfs? BTW this is the fixit-floppy that came with 3.4-RELEASE I'm talking about. To be honest, I wouldn't mind seeing nc (netcat) on the fixit floppy. It's a very powerful networking tool IMHO, and for people in a "secure" environment running NFS or the rlogind family is quite out of the question =) DocWilco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message