Things to remove from /rescue

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:25:32PM -0400, Mike Makonnen wrote:
> > b) want to maintain network security while accessing that resource.
> 
> What security? There are no network services running in single-user,
> so what is there to secure?

I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing things this way.
 

> I won't complain if it's kept, but I would prefer just the bare minimum
> be kept in /rescue. Once you go beyond that and into "well s/he might
> need..." territory then we might as well throw in everything in the
> base system. IMO, /rescue should be the absolute essentials _only_.
> Instead of theorizing reasons why someone might need ipfw and friends,
> why don't we wait until we get a bug report about a specific situation
> in which it was needed before we put it back in.

Thank you for expressing this so well.  I do think we should wait for
PR's telling real experiences rather than theorizing so much in the "what
if"'s.
 
> Also, while you're at it, David, I think you can get rid of rcorder
> as well.  I don't know why one would need it to fix a hosed root,
> and besides it's staticaly linked to begin with.

Will do! :-)

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)