Paul wrote:

Message: 2 Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:57:52 +0000 From: Paul <[email protected]> Subject: [Bdi4emc-help] Re: consequences of new OpenSSH... To: "Help and advice for BDI-4 users." <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Gene & Kent The basic BDI-4 installation already uses a post-install script to tweak

certain settings and to correctly configure a couple of essential packages. To add another section to the script would be possible, but as has been pointed out, an upgrade to ssh could overwrite the X11Forwarding option and then we would have complaints of a broken ssh package. My personal preference is to keep auto-scripted tweaks to an absolute minimum and document additional tweaks rather than forcing them on to everyone.

Regards, Paul.

This is my personal preference too, Paul. I was just getting overly enthusiastic in my reply. What one really wants are scripts that test the ability to communicate between two or more hosts and makes intelligent suggestions if the tests fail. Although I can imagine what the scripts would look like because similar things have been done with CORBA ORBs I've used, I know that maintaining the scripts becomes yet another maintenance problem. BDI Wiki pages will do fine for documenting additional tweaks as they are discovered, and I'm happy to do my share in creating them. Regards, Kent