Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:16:49 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating rdist Message-ID: <200011131517.eADFHTM01095@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Nov 2000 14:00:45 EST." <20001112140045.K555@puck.firepipe.net>
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In message <20001112140045.K555@puck.firepipe.net>, Will Andrews writes:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 03:59:05AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > I have just committed a `44bsd-rdist' port.
> > So the question is, do we totally remove `rdist' from the base system,
> > or update it to rdist 6.1.5?
>
> I personally think it's better to remove it and update in ports. Cy
> Schubert makes a good point (if it is valid; I didn't check and don't
> know myself) that 44bsd-rdist and rdist6 are interoperable on mutally
> exclusive systems. Hence, it makes sense that a system administrator
> should need to look in ports for what they need.
The description file from the rdist6 ports states:
This version of rdist is not directly compatible with rdist
distributed with 4.3BSD and subsequent vendor releases, but does
indirectly provide full backward compatibility.
From the rdist6(1) man page:
The -Server option is recognized to provide partial back-
ward compatible support for older versions of rdist which
used this option to put rdist into server mode. If rdist
is started with the -Server command line option, it will
attempt to exec (run) the old version of rdist. This
option will only work if rdist was compiled with the loca-
tion of the old rdist (usually either /usr/ucb/oldrdist or
/usr/old/rdist) and that program is available at run time.
To support both the classic rdist and rdist6 protocols, both need to be
installed.
Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC
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