Subject: Re: Question about rdist
To: None <cinnion@ka8zrt.com>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/01/2003 22:24:02
On Dec 1, 10:06pm, cinnion@ka8zrt.com (Douglas Wade Needham) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Question about rdist

| Thanks for the reply from both of you.  This all sounds good.  My main
| issue is that rdist v3 is lacking quite a bit of functionality, with
| the foremost being that it does not support SSH.  If we had freerdist
| v6 replace the old version in the regular distribution, that would be
| lightyears towards where I need to be and where we (NetBSD) should be.

I guess you mean rdist v4, which is what we have. The ssh issue is easily
solved. The biggest advantage is to move to the non-setuid rdist.

| Now if we only had a native version of Java for Mozilla. ;)

We do, and we are going to for 2.0 if things work out.

christos