[ Moving tools-discuss to bcc, as it's really not the list for this. ] On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:38:43PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
> screen > sudo There's generally been resistance from the ARC to shipping setuid freeware programs. What's happened in the past is that they can ship, but without the setuid bit set. They probably could be shipped fully enabled, but only after a thorough security evaluation (and blessings from Casper, likely). > top There's been lots of discussion about this lately. It may be a better idea to enhance prstat to optionally make it look a bit more like top, and to add obviously missing features. > gls > gdf > dir All part of the coreutils that Stephen Hahn is pushing through. See PSARC/2007/048. > gawk I don't think anyone's mentioned this one before, and it's probably a shoe-in. > procmail Ditto. > torque This'll be interesting. Why would you want that without openpbs? And how would it interact with Sun Cluster? > curl. Probably a shoe-in. You'll want to sync up with Stefan Teleman about this, since he's working on it as part of his php integration. Danek
