Am 27.06.2009 um 00:08 schrieb Marc Balmer:


Am 26.06.2009 um 20:22 schrieb David Laight:

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 01:38:32PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:

I think this utility should be renamed wakeonlan because wake is too generic.

FWIW I agree ...

I disagree.  Totally.


and I forgot to mention why: the command name reflects what the command does, not how it does it. wakeonlan would be misleading, because a LAN could also be a token ring, where this would nor work... (ok, exaggerating a bit, but you get
the idea)

should we rename ssh to sshovertcpip ;)  tcpdump to tcpdumponlan?

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