Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:52:39 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers), dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Subject: Re: /usr/hosts Message-ID: <199607180552.XAA28368@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:50:44 %2B0200
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: > Greetings! : > Is /usr/hosts deprecated? : : For which purpose? Or do you mean /etc/hosts? An old hack where you'd put /usr/hosts in your path and populate it with symlinks to all the machines you use. These symlinks would point to rsh. If rsh was started as a command not named rsh, it would use that command name as its machine name. You could therefore login with just a 'rover' and do an ls on rover via 'rover ls'. To answer the question, yes, it still should work. Warner
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