John Plocher wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >>> I know that I'm certainly not happy about ripping out Solaris commands and >>> replacing them with external commands. > > > Since Sun's management seems to have RIF'd the entire team that used > to maintain those old Solaris commands, it seems clear that *they* no > longer have the same commitment to them as they used to. In that > case, anything that moves towards a codebase that /is/ actively > supported by people who are experts in the field is rather to be > desired, don't you think? > > -John
Point taken, but to be fair Sun does still support these commands, and there are Sun engineers responsible for maintaining them. Just not as many as before. Scott -- Scott Rotondo Principal Engineer, Solaris Security Technologies President, Trusted Computing Group Phone/FAX: +1 408 850 3655 (Internal x68278)