Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 22:58:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/hosts Message-ID: <199607180358.WAA06819@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199607171904.MAA04220@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Jul 17, 96 12:04:34 pm
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> Greetings!
> Is /usr/hosts deprecated?
> Thanx,
> --don
Not that I'm aware of! However, personally, I find that the following shell
script "makelogins" is more generally useful to me as a single user..
#! /bin/sh -
cd $HOME/bin/logins
echo `cat $HOME/.hostaliases | awk '{print $1}'`
for i in `cat $HOME/.hostaliases | awk '{print $1}'` ; do
ln rlog $i
done
It obviously makes a few assumptions.
Since the /usr/hosts thing works on the same principle, it will work - until
somebody gets rid of rlogin (as the telnet folks have been threatening for
quite some time). I doubt anyone will hack telnet to do this.
Gosh I didn't think anybody even remembered this sort of stuff in this "new
modern age" of BSD.
Side note: I have not seen anyone create a /usr/hosts in several years now.
... Joe
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