Am 30.06.2009 um 23:09 schrieb Sam Leffler:
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..
a compelling argument could be that wake(8) is BSD licensed while wol
found in ports/net/wol is GPL licensed and brings in a whole lot of a
whole lot of a whole lot of a whole lot of a stuff with it, when
actually, to send out Wake on LAN package, a small BSD licensed
command like wake(8) is sufficient. it is much smaller an cleaner code.
Sam
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