Things to remove from /rescue

[John Baldwin]

On 17-Jul-2003 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:17:00AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>> whatever it is, certainly the purpose is not to show how good
>> a sysadmin is in using a knife's blade as a screwdriver and a fork
>> and a spoon. Heck, even swiss army knives have these extra
>> tools.
>> 
>> I think that if something in /rescue can make the task faster
>> and less error prone, removing it to save 10-50k of disk space
>> would be a big mistake.
> 
> You must not have seen my other email that listed other things than just
> disk space.  If I did need to get to the Internet to get bits, what does
> ipfw do for me that "sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.enable=0" doesn't?

This doesn't handle ipfilter.  You've conveniently ignored that point it
seems.

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