Bug: rmail in /bin (was: root & toor)

From: Antoine Beaupre (LMC) (Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca)
Date: 06/08/01

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From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:56:35 -0400

Garrett Wollman wrote:
>
> <<On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 09:03:57 +0300, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> said:
>
> > But yes, this is apparently a documented bug - rmail is not part of the boot
> > process, there is no real need for it in 'emergency' situations when /usr
> > is not mounted yet, so no, it should not really reside in /bin.
>
> Unfortunately, as with /etc/rmt, it is part of a protocol the
> client implementations of which we do not control.

IIRC, /etc/rmt is a symlink.

Why not the same for rmail?

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