On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:47:47AM -0700, Jamie Heilman wrote: > No, you can't if you're plan is to uninstall inetd, the package structure is > broken and won't allow it due to $@)!ed up dependancies. I've been trying > to do it for ages. Then, when I found equivs I danced a jig. Its pretty > much impossible to do in potato, I think you can pull it off in sid/woody > though with the help of equivs - I haven't tried as my only unstable box > actually needed inetd, and was only accessible from an internal network so > I wasn't worried about inetd's underlying flaws wrt DoSability and lack of > concurency limiting. If you use inetd on untrusted interface you are > asking for pain, I thought that was fairly well understood by now.
It's true that uninstalling it (in potato, anyway) is not worth all the effort. But you can definitely disable it. I have "K20inetd" links in all my /etc/rc?.d directories where I don't want to run inetd. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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