Re: The "node" command in Debian
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011, John Goerzen wrote:
> On 02/08/2011 05:04 PM, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> >Similar AX.25 tools "call" and "listen" were renamed in 2007 to ax*
> >(package ax25-apps), because those names were too generic (according to
> >the changelog).
>
> ... resulting in considerable confusion from many people, given that
> much documentation out there refers to call and listen. I, for one,
> was rather puzzled, especially since there is also an ax25_call
> which does something different.
>
> Not saying it was a bad choice, but just that this was what the
> result was. Much existing documentation is confusing to Debian
> users.
>
> Also, it should be stated that /usr/sbin/node is normally started
> from ax25d, which is somewhat analogous to inetd. It is not
> normally invoked by users (though it could be). Renaming it will
> break servers unless users are well aware.
Can it be fixed by the package postinst (i.e. update ax25d's config
files)? If it is something that is supposed to run through a
superserver, it would be much better off in /usr/lib somewhere...
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