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Date:      Fri, 16 Mar 2001 04:25:16 +0000
From:      Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.co.uk>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cp MAKEDEV /dev - on a system with devfs
Message-ID:  <3AB195AC.3520C348@freebsd-services.co.uk>
References:  <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> <53555.984415341@critter> <200103130311.f2D3BFB10353@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010313223822.O96832@hand.dotat.at> <200103140204.VAA42698@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
> <<On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:38:22 +0000, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> said:
> 
> > There's one real oddity in FreeBSD:
> 
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     wheel          13 Jan 28 13:42 rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt*
> 
> The pathname of the `rmt' program is a fundamental part of the `rmt'
> ``protocol'' such as it is.  We've been over this one many times.

Maybe the time's come to just deprecate rmt, I'd be surprised if there
are many people still using it.

Paul.

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