Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:32:44 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin Makefile nologin.c Message-ID: <20040222233244.GO45593@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040222231909.03abc488@imap.sfu.ca> References: <200402221003.i1MA3PW0024791@repoman.freebsd.org> <6.0.1.1.1.20040222133540.03c296b0@imap.sfu.ca> <200402221500.38486.wes@softweyr.com> <6.0.1.1.1.20040222230357.03ca6ec0@imap.sfu.ca> <20040222231649.GN45593@submonkey.net> <6.0.1.1.1.20040222231909.03abc488@imap.sfu.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:22:56PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote: > At 23:16 22/02/2004, Ceri Davies wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:14:05PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote: > >> I wonder if the optimal solution would be to have > >> /sbin/nologin compiled without syslog support and /usr/sbin/nologin > >> built from the same source but with syslog support enabled. > > > >It sounds to me like the optimal solution would actually be to move it. > > Sure, if you want to confuse people who have spent over a decade > expecting it to be in /sbin. We've got to leave *something* in /sbin > for at least the near future, even if it's minimalist. I'd agree, but having two programs with the same name and different behaviour has much more potential to confuse people (especially Solaris admins, where /sbin and /usr/sbin seem to be frequently the same directory). Ceri -- [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAOTwcocfcwTS3JF8RAr3TAJ4ro3KBUEqiIQOwMPkjVc9+HtrhvACeNn+M n+ExAO7GFwA9+5mFERWjMrE= =fQMd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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