On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:15:21 -0400 "Alfred M. Szmidt" <a...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > The following should work to compile only syslogd, as per > > ./configure --help, INSTALL and README. > > > > ./configure --disable-server --disable-clients --enable-syslogd > > > > What `four lines' did you use? Maybe something can be improved. > > i just disabled everything i didn't want, which made up four text > lines (rows?) on my monitor. if --enable-syslogd works, > --disable-syslogd=no should work too (by convention), like > --disable-syslogd should be substitutable with > --enable-syslogd=no. using --disable-syslogd=no has the advantage > that one can middle-click (Xorg quick copy/paste) the option from > the configure --help output. > > Please show the exact command you used. Did you try the one I > suggested? i re-installed with --enable-xxx and it worked fine. however, the command line scratched the fourth line on the monitor too (syslogd, logger, ping, ping6, hostname, traceroute, encryption, auth, shishi). in other words: both ways part the package at about the half. i really think that this inetutils package doesn't reflect common private use-cases well. there is too much loose stuff in it, and the related stuff (inetd services) isn't a necessity on a 'modern' home system. the latter is the stuff belonging into this package. concluding, rather syslogd and others don't really fit. they don't really fit! see, coreutils installs quite a lot i never used myself. but my system uses it frequently. there may be a rest i don't care much about. however, the inetd utils are fully redundant on my system, and they can be dangerous. i don't want to have them lying around on my system. this is why this mixture of inetd utils and other system stuff gives me a bad feel in the stomach. it doesn't feel right! > > > what about an iproute implementation (without berkeley-db > > dependency ;) > > > > Would you like to write such a program for us? > > would i then ask you for doing it? i'm not in this field of > programming, just maintain a system. sorry. > > Someone has to do it, would you like to do so? i really have _no_!! insight into the internals, can barely use the command lines. please don't stick further. > The `unix' tradition was to not have any help output from programs that was in the _rise_ of *nix! > -h was already used for different tools and that formed the tradition! best wishes, MeloDramus <melodra...@online.de>
