cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin Makefile nologin.c nologin.sh

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 3:49 PM -0800 11/17/03, Gregory Sutter wrote:
>On 2003-11-17 13:01 -0800, Wes Peters <wes at softweyr.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > I suppose adding the logging done by the sysutils/no-login
>  > port would make the program objectionably large.  Sigh.
>  > Several times over the past five years I considering asking
>  > if we should just import my nologin and be done with it;
>  > each time I didn't pursue it because it wasn't worth the bikeshed.
>
>Wes's no-login port has been around for ages and works just great.
>Please just import it instead of creating yet another version without
>the logging capability of sysutils/no-login.  Or add the syslog
>functionality to the new program.  Thanks.

How much larger is the object-file for the no-login port compared
to this minimal one?  (particularly now that /sbin is dynamically
linked).  If Wes wants to import no-login, the syslog capability
certainly seems worth a few extra bytes to me.  And it seems
reasonable to go with code which people have already been using
for some time now.

This would have been much more of a bikeshed back when it would
have been comparing a sh-script to a statically-linked binary,
but it doesn't seem like much of one now.  (IMO)

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