"M. Warner Losh" wrote: > : > - Please consider restoring rdist to FreeBSD. Thanks. > > And the number of security problems with rdist are legion. A large > component of the decision to remove it from the base was the high > incidence of security problems with the original code. That, coupled > with the rdist6 incompatibility and the better alternatives, lead us > to remove it from the tree rather than update the code.
Thanks Warner, OK "security problems ... legion" ... fair enough ! > Next thing you'll be wanting perl back in the base system :-) <Chuckle>, not me :-) I didn't want to consume list time on a discussion if rdist had been previously debated & lost, but I had no idea current had debated it. rdist might have been one of those commits that just slip through without much review sometimes. I haven't been tracking current for a long time prior to call for DP2 tester, (so perhaps I'm a good tester, 'cos I'll trip & fall on what you long term current folk know to step over/round, & not trip on), but I Did first first ask: Has this been well debated already ? or should I file a Send-PR ? & until my last post, I saw no indication of previous debate. Only then did I get: Mark M's "Debate over." Kris's: [...Other stale arguments deleted...] (which probably crossed with mail batch reading & timezones, with mine). Julian Stacey jhs @ berklix.com Computer Systems Engineer, Unix & Net Consultant, Munich. Ihr Rauchen = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Schnupftabak probieren. European BSD Conference, Munich Pre-Planning http://berklix.org/conf/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message