Re: RSH Tools

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 21:39, Chuck Wolber wrote:
> > > Why haven't the RSH tools been removed from the current Beta
> > > distribution?
> >
> > Because that would be a bad move...
> >
> > Lots of software assumes that those utilities are available. For
> > example, the Informix database cluster utilities automatically invoke
> > rsh.
>
> Indeed. I meant the post more as a troll to see what sort of issues would
> be raised. So far I haven't seen anything that, at least at first glance,
> couldn't be done with ssh and a symbolic link. Is the issue:
> Users who can't or won't change?

I have to boot some silly boxes running vxworks. It uses rsh and similar
to log onto the boot server to fetch files it needs. Please don't
remove rsh ;)