On 21 August 2015 at 19:10, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Richard Melville wrote: > > It was ftp and telnet that I was thinking of, along with rcp, rexec, >> rlogin, rsh and tftp. Surely, ifconfig has been marked as deprecated >> for some time and replaced with iproute2. >> > > I agree that the r* programs are obsolete, but the others are useful in > some circumstances. Many users, including me, expect ifconfig. Do you > know of any distros that do not include ifconfig? Not sure if that was rhetorical, but no, not off hand. Mind you, I haven't carried out a survey. It's a fair point, but if it comes down to having to install inetutils just to get ifconfig I'm not sure that warrants it. If users have the r* programs the likelihood is that they will use them, even though we all know that they are a security hazard. Maybe, at least, there should be a health warning in the book. Richard
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