On 13/09/2007, Mike Gerdts <mgerdts at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/07, David.Comay at sun.com <David.Comay at sun.com> wrote:
> > > Sure, but I'm not sure we need to be in quite such a hurry to toss out
> > > telnet; last I knew, Windows didn't include an ssh client or server - has
> > > that changed?
> >
> > Sorry just in case I wasn't clear; I was just advocating removing the
> > telnet server packages from the Live CD contents. I'm happy leaving
> > the contents of SUNWtnetc there.
>
> We are worrying about this, right?
>
> $ egrep -e 'SUNWtnet[rd]' /var/sadm/install/contents\
> | nawk '$2 == "f" { printf "%8d KB %s\n", $7 / 1024, $1 }'
> 62 KB /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
> 2 KB /var/svc/manifest/network/telnet.xml
>
> There would be more benefit in simply gzipping the service manifests
> than excluding telnetd.
>
> $ cd /var/svc
> $ find manifest | cpio -pd /var/tmp
> $ du -sk /var/tmp/manifest /var/svc/manifest
> 348 /var/tmp/manifest
> 598 /var/svc/manifest
>
> A similar amount of savings could likely happen if the CDDL header
> could be a one-liner.
>
To me the benefit is in discouraging use of something that should not
be used. The size of it is obviously barely a concern. If at the very
least it is disabled by default, I'd be happier, though not happy ;)
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