hello i installed inetutils today, though i only needed syslogd and logger but gave your versions of ifconfig and traceroute a try.
however, the configuration was painful. i tried the easy way, turned off servers and clients and wrote --disable-syslogd=no etc. but that wasn't supported. thus i needed four lines to get the right selection. further, why is encryption and authentication chained to kerberos? does this have to be this way? i'm not in that. in the end, installation went fine (though i didn't test yet) except of syslogd not being installed to the target directory. i moved it manually. i also miss a man page for syslog.conf. because you added extra symbols, there should be an own man page. not to say that there are so many versions of syslogd out on the net that the man page should mention the origin in the first paragraph. on the other hand, i believe that the info document is unique. however, ... possibly syslogd should better be moved to util-linux, because it isn't really an inet util (that it can forward doesn't compare it to tools like ftp and friends.) hostname, instead, is already in the coreutils package. if inetutils is intended to make net-tools redundant, i'd like to see route and others as well. but you have that on your list, i believe. what about an iproute implementation (without berkeley-db dependency ;) (btw., choosing -? for help and -h for hop on the syslogd command line is not a good choice in my eyes. please rethink!) best wishes, MeloDramus <melodra...@online.de>
