[58] in bugtraq
Re: R utilities, addresses, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Howes)
Fri Oct 21 05:28:40 1994
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 01:08:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Charles Howes <chowes@helix.net>
To: "Alexander L. Haiut" <alx@CS.bgu.ac.il>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.1.0.9410201749.D13204-0100000@steel>
On Thu, 20 Oct 1994, Alexander L. Haiut wrote:
> Hi..
>
> > On a pretty-close-to-related issue, why can't the r utitiles handle ip
> > addresses? Seems to be a glaring omission.
>
> Interesting question.. On SunOS, Ultrix (BSDs ?!) r* commands don't work
> with IP, but on IRIX and AIX (sysV ?!?) it works.
>
> That's just results of test.. but why ?! Thank you!
If a site has an IP address, it could potentially run the rpc services.
ObBug: argh, can't think of any more. We need more bugs!
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Charles Howes -- chowes@helix.net
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