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Date:      Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:34:36 +0200
From:      Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org>, Martin Blapp <mbr@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r195200 - in head/usr.sbin: . wake
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Am 30.06.2009 um 23:29 schrieb Kostik Belousov:

[...]

>>
>> a compelling argument could be that wake(8) is BSD licensed while wol
>> found in ports/net/wol is GPL licensed and brings in a whole lot of a
>> whole lot of a whole lot of a whole lot of a stuff with it, when
>> actually, to send out Wake on LAN package, a small BSD licensed
>> command like wake(8) is sufficient.  it is much smaller an cleaner  
>> code.
>
> Then, add the wake program to ports.
> My opinion is that this better be kept in ports.

I find it a rather basic operation to be able to wake up remote  
systems from a central place, so I think base is the right place for  
this.  Wak-on-LAN as become part of our everydays IT infrastructure,  
as much as we support it in BIOSes and ifconfig's, we should also  
support waking up systems.




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