Removal of rmt(8)? rcmd(3)?
Steve Kargl
sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Wed Oct 9 20:46:22 UTC 2019
On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 10:30:30PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In August 2017 I removed FreeBSD rcmd tools (rsh, ruptime, etc).
I seem to have ruptime.
% ruptime
ruptime: no hosts in /var/rwho
> trasz@ (cc'ed) reached out to me asking if we should remove rmt(8). It
> relies on rcmd(3) which, as I understand it, is a libc function which
> implements protocol used by rshd(8). This looks like me these two
> should have been removed in 2017 as well.
>
> Pardon my ignorance but I've just discovered about these two. Are
> there any other commands/libraries like this which are candidates to
> be removed?
>
> Other thoughts?
There is rdump and rrestore. dumprmt.c seems to use rcmd(3).
--
Steve
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