Subject: Re: rsh, rlogin and rcp
To: None <port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Mauricio Tavares <Mauricio@proedint.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/23/1999 09:07:41
At 11:26 AM 11/23/99 +1100, you wrote:
>Gregory McGarry wrote:
>
>> Just out of interest. Why are rsh and rlogin in /usr/bin,
>> yet rcp is in /bin? I'm replacing them with symlinks to ssh.
>
>I think it's because you many want to rcp files around in single user
>mode, whereas rsh and rlogin are somewhat less useful in single user.
>Just a guess...
>
>Simon.
>
I second that because in many machines /usr is in a different partition
than /bin (which is usually with the root partition). Out of curiosity,
this is what my HD looks like:
> df
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/rz0a 63342 42470 17704 70% /
/dev/rz0d 592684 285408 277640 50% /usr
/dev/rz0f 237180 68728 156592 30% /home
kernfs 2 2 0 100% /kern
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