Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> - the suite can be changed by a simple "sed -i" command
>
> This is also wrong because this is a crontab entry, not a
> configuration file.  You cannot assume anything about its syntax
> (beyond the part which is interpreted by cron).

That's a point.

> sed -i is also not available on sarge IIRC, but it's esay to work
> around that.

Yes, is debsecan on backports.org?

> It seems that the "correct" fix is another level of indirection: The
> actual configuration has to be put into a file with tighter syntactic
> constraints.

That's what I wanted to suggest when I read your remark.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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