[bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8

[melodramus]

hello

i installed inetutils today, though i only needed syslogd and logger
but gave your versions of ifconfig and traceroute a try. 

however, the configuration was painful. i tried the easy way, turned
off servers and clients and wrote --disable-syslogd=no etc. but that
wasn't supported. thus i needed four lines to get the right selection.

further, why is encryption and authentication chained to kerberos? does
this have to be this way? i'm not in that.

in the end, installation went fine (though i didn't test yet) except of
syslogd not being installed to the target directory. i moved it
manually.

i also miss a man page for syslog.conf. because you added extra
symbols, there should be an own man page. not to say that there are so
many versions of syslogd out on the net that the man page should
mention the origin in the first paragraph. on the other hand, i believe
that the info document is unique. however, ...

possibly syslogd should better be moved to util-linux, because it isn't
really an inet util (that it can forward doesn't compare it to tools
like ftp and friends.)

hostname, instead, is already in the coreutils package.

if inetutils is intended to make net-tools redundant, i'd like to see
route and others as well. but you have that on your list, i believe.

what about an iproute implementation (without berkeley-db dependency ;)


(btw., choosing -? for help and -h for hop on the syslogd command line
is not a good choice in my eyes. please rethink!)

best wishes,
MeloDramus <address@hidden>