Doing "*stat <tab><tab>" in my shell I came across those two entries
under /usr/bin/ which are undocumented:
$ man -k any~'^(host|purge)stat$'
man: nothing appropriate
/etc/mailer.conf has no entries for them but mailer.conf(5)' EXAMPLES
section demonstrates using them with the mail/sendmail port.
CVS log has it that we've been installing those two symlinks two
mailwrapper since its import from NetBSD in 1999 and mentioning the
examples since 2001, but I couldn't find a specific commit that
eventually removed their supporting code.
All other symlinks to mailwrapper(8) (sendmail, newaliases, mailq and
mailmap) have their own manual pages and respective argv specific code
under /usr/src/usr.sbin/.
Assuming that purgestat and hoststat usage/code went away with removing
sendmail from base at latest, can their symlinks be considered leftovers
and removed?
Index: distrib/sets/lists/base/mi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/distrib/sets/lists/base/mi,v
retrieving revision 1.990
diff -u -p -r1.990 mi
--- distrib/sets/lists/base/mi 16 Jun 2020 09:37:03 -0000 1.990
+++ distrib/sets/lists/base/mi 22 Jun 2020 00:48:53 -0000
@@ -411,7 +411,6 @@
./usr/bin/help
./usr/bin/hexdump
./usr/bin/host
-./usr/bin/hoststat
./usr/bin/htpasswd
./usr/bin/id
./usr/bin/ident
@@ -510,7 +509,6 @@
./usr/bin/printenv
./usr/bin/printf
./usr/bin/prove
-./usr/bin/purgestat
./usr/bin/quota
./usr/bin/radioctl
./usr/bin/rcs
Index: usr.sbin/mailwrapper/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/mailwrapper/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -p -r1.6 Makefile
--- usr.sbin/mailwrapper/Makefile 11 Sep 2016 07:06:30 -0000 1.6
+++ usr.sbin/mailwrapper/Makefile 22 Jun 2020 00:46:59 -0000
@@ -11,11 +11,8 @@ afterinstall:
ln -fs /usr/sbin/mailwrapper ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/newaliases
ln -fs /usr/sbin/mailwrapper ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/mailq
ln -fs /usr/sbin/mailwrapper ${DESTDIR}/usr/sbin/makemap
- ln -fs /usr/sbin/mailwrapper ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/hoststat
- ln -fs /usr/sbin/mailwrapper ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/purgestat
chown -h ${BINOWN}:${BINGRP} ${DESTDIR}/usr/sbin/sendmail \
${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/newaliases ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/mailq \
- ${DESTDIR}/usr/sbin/makemap ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/hoststat \
- ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/purgestat
+ ${DESTDIR}/usr/sbin/makemap
.include <bsd.prog.mk>
