Re: [ITP] Inetutils 1.9.4

[Daniel Boland <daniel at boland dot nl>]

Hi Achim,

Achim Gratz wrote:
> D. Boland writes:
> > > These tools are provided separately in many Linux distros for quite
> > > some time, and while those tools can be started by inetd, inetd
> > > doesn't require them and they don't require inetd (xinetd is perfectly
> > > capable of replacing inetd).
> > I don't see why this makes sense. The ping, hostname, whois and tftp
> > programs *do* belong to the inetutils package, right? But if you
> > insist, i'll comply.
>
> They don't necessarily belong there and haven't for quite some time if
> you look at a reasonably modern Linux distribution (mine is openSUSE
> Tumbleweed).
>
> > rpm -qf /usr/lib/git/git-subtree
> git-core-2.7.1-1.1.x86_64
> > rpm -qf `which hostname`
> hostname-3.16-1.3.x86_64
> > rpm -qf `which ping`
> iputils-s20121221-4.5.x86_64
> > rpm -qf `which tftp`
> tftp-5.2-13.2.x86_64
>
> whois isn't even installed on my box and most registrars wouldn't
> deliver data for it anyway.

What if you are a registrar ;-)

> > > - usr/bin/traceroute is non-functional:
> > >
> > >     $ traceroute.exe www.wdr.de
> > >     traceroute to e2636.g.akamaiedge.net (104.90.150.230), 64 hops max
> > >     traceroute: socket: Operation not permitted
> > That's because you're not in Administrator mode. Ping (from Atzeri's
> > package) does the same. The error message ultimately comes from the
> > 'sendto' function, which is in cygwin1.dll
>
> Maybe it should be in sbin/ like all the other stuff that needs
> administrator privileges, then?

Definitely. Maybe add /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin to the path of the
user who installs Cygwin? Most Linux systems do that.

Daniel