From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 10 8:20:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40DBA14DF4 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 08:20:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA24582; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:19:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:19:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Boris Popov , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: NetWare client in -current In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 10-Sep-99 Boris Popov wrote: > > mount_nwfs - similar to mount_nfs > > ncplogin - creates permanent connection to a NetWare server > > without an actual mount, > > ncplogout - destroy permanent connection, > > ncplist - displays various information about client itself > > and NetWare servers, > > ncprint - allows to send job to NetWare printer, > > ncpsend - sends message to NetWare user or server console, > > ncplpd - simple NetWare print server, > > ncpurge - purge specified salvagable files, > > ncpsvc - remote control for a NetWare server, > > ncpasswd - allows to change password for a NetWare user. > > Is there any reason to not have it as a port? > > The only possible candidate for contrib'ifying I could see would be > mount_nwfs because building it without the kernel source could be a > problem, but the rest of it could be a port I think :) Thats like suggesting we make the 'ipfw' command a port and leave the kernel bits in the tree. Since all this stuff depends on being in sync, the only reasonable way to do this is to put it in the tree. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message