Subject: Bug#3100:

From: Bdale Garbee <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 21:51:31 -0600

In article <[email-masked]> you wrote:
: Can anyone argue for placing rmt in /sbin?

I believe strongly that rmt belongs in /usr/sbin, with the symlink
/etc/rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt.

I don't care which package it's in.  I'm going to close bug 3100 indicating
that rmt is not/will not be provided as part of tar, but will be provided as
part of the cpio package.

Bdale

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From: Lars Wirzenius <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 13:54:26 +0300

> /etc/rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt.

Do we really need to the symlink?

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From: Brian Mays <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 96 12:15:05 -0500

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Wirzenius <[email-masked]> writes:

    Lars> Bdale Garbee:
    Bdale> I believe strongly that rmt belongs in /usr/sbin, with the
    Bdale> symlink /etc/rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt.

    Lars> Do we really need to the symlink?

The symlink in necessary because tar, cpio, mt, and some other programs
traditionally expect rmt to be located in the /etc directory on the
remote machine.  If we want Debian Linux to be compatible with other
Unix-like systems, these systems should be able to find it there.
Thus, FSSTND and compatibility requirements dictate that rmt should be
placed in /usr/sbin with a symlink into /etc.

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Brian