Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:13:21 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: /usr/hosts Message-ID: <199607180613.XAA11307@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <199607180552.XAA28368@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jul 17, 96 11:52:39 pm
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> : > 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. Yes, I've previously checked the rsh sources and verified this. However, I was inquiring as to whether some *other* technique is now "en vogue" instead of this... (hence my question about whether it was "deprecated") Thanx! --don
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