Removal of rmt(8)? rcmd(3)?

Garrett Wollman wollman at hergotha.csail.mit.edu
Wed Oct 9 21:24:04 UTC 2019


In article <20191009204613.GA55772 at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> you write:
>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

rwho and ruptime are not part of the rcmd suite; they use link-local
broadcast or multicast communications, but supply only general system
information, not individual user access, and runs as an unprivileged
user.

I still run rwhod (in multicast mode).

-GAWollman



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