Marc Balmer wrote:
Am 30.06.2009 um 21:07 schrieb Sam Leffler:
Martin Blapp wrote:
Author: mbr
Date: Tue Jun 30 18:51:22 2009
New Revision: 195200
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/195200
Log:
Add wake, a tool to send Wake on LAN frames to hosts on a local
Ethernet network
Submitted by: Marc Balmer <m...@msys.ch>
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re
what's wrong with ports/net/wol?
wake(8) is smaller and it is actually something needed in base. in
modern, ecological "green computing" environments we put the client
machines, like our POS terminals to sleep at night. In the morning,
a cronjob from the central server wakes up all machines using this
command. more and more systems support it, so havin a wake command in
base is just about right.
The typical way things happen in freebsd is we promote tools from ports
when they are deemed needed in the base system. In fact it's probably
more important to have the tool in base remain compatible with what
users have had in their tree (via ports).
I have yet to hear a compelling argument for why wake was chosen over an
existing tool that's been successfully used for a while. OTOH this
isn't something that'll keep me up at night; it just seems like an
ill-advised rush job that completely violates the intent of the 8.0 code
freeze..
Sam
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