cvs commit: src/rescue/rescue Makefile

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 8 17:10:41 PST 2003


On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:13:11AM +0100, Guido van Rooij wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:31:31PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > 
> > We had a big debate about this one... if you're a strong ipfilter user
> > and don't feel ipfstat and ipnat should be there, please leave them out
> > of /rescue.  Not being an ipfilter user, I wasn't able to make a good
> > judgment call to leave them out.
> 
> iopnat is for configuring NAT and thus needs to be in /rescue.
> ipfstat is meant for reporting statistics/filter lists. It should also
> be included (unless it is enough to configure lists but not view the
> installed ones.

I would think that is enough.  /rescue is there to get your box booting
using normal / again.  Not to be able to create a mini-firewall like one
did with PicoBSD before.


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