cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ntp Makefile config.h src/usr.sbin/ntp/arlib Makefile src/usr.sbin/ntp/doc Makefile ntp-genkeys.8 src/usr.sbin/ntp/libntp Makefile...

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 05:41:06 -0500, Ollivier Robert  
<roberto at keltia.freenix.fr> wrote:

> According to Joshua Goodall:
>> FreeBSD's use.perl script deliberately manages a symlink from
>> /usr/bin/perl to (for example) my /opt/bin/perl5.8.6.  I believe
>> that using the managed link is more correct than making assumptions
>> about $LOCALBASE.
>
> You have a point.  What do others say?

danfe's reply is a lot better, why not use '#!/usr/bin/env perl'?

>> It's ntptrace.  I didn't send it to the NTP team because I don't
>> know them, and as far as I knew it was only FreeBSD harbouring a
>> desire to eradicate perl scripts from the base system.  I'd like
>> to send it, and it'd help if I had some kind of endorsement from a
>> committer.
>
> Please contact Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.isc.org> and Brad Knowles
> <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> to see fi they're interested.  They know me :)


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