Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:22:22 -0800
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:11:30PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >Thanks to /rescue and the live filesystem archives on
> >current.freebsd.org, I was able to recover ....
> >...  I could have used the ftp client (or fetch) in /rescue :-)
> 
> Yes, fetch would be useful.  I imagine a lot of people
> in emergency situations will need to pull things over
> a network connection.  Looks like it would only add about
> 65k (20k for fetch, another 45k for libfetch which isn't
> already in the crunched /rescue binary).
> 
> Submit a PR on this....

Please, NO.  There wasn't an FTP client available for this type of
recovery pre-/rescue, there shouldn't be one now.
 
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-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Sat Nov 22 2003 - 16:22:26 UTC

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