Re: /etc/rmt
> > Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:
> > > The cpio package contains a file /usr/sbin/rmt and a sym-link from
> > > /etc/rmt to it. Is this considered a bug? I have got used to
> > > being able to grep the contents of /etc without worrying about
> > > getting 8 bit data which could change my terminal settings...
> On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 11:46:45AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> > It's not a bug, because it is required to allow remote tar to work
> > from other OSs. Unfortunately, many versions of tar have the
> > /etc/rmt path hardwired into them, so they can invoke it on remote
> > machines (via rsh or ssh).
> > There's not much we can do about this (except perhaps making it a
> > seperate package, with a single symlink in it, which I suppose you
> > could propose, since very few people actually need /etc/rmt)
nobbi@cheerful.com (Norbert Nemec) wrote:
> Perhaps a small wrapper-script instead? Could also contain a line of
> explanation.
I think that this is the best way to do this. I'll implement it in the
next release.
Brian
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