On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 12:09:13PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
>
> Damnit! I forgot the most important part of my argument -- people
> upgrading from 2.2.8 and don't read the release notes are going to have
> an /etc/rc.conf that sets inetd_flags="", hence their systems won't
> wrap!
Wouldn't
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:07:31 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> Okay, so let's say we've got Joe Bloggs upgrading from 2.2.8 to 3.3 . He
> doesn't read the release notes, so he doesn't notice that inetd now
> wraps by default. The impact on him is:
Damnit! I forgot the most important part of my arg
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:41:54 MST, Doug wrote:
> > This is a situation in which we can't make _everyone_ happy. For the
> > particular case you've provided, anyone who upgrades from 2.2 to 3.3
> > without reading the release notes will get what's coming to him.
>
> That's always true, but
Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> > First, the setting in /etc/defaults/rc.conf should default to
> > off, as defaulting it to on violates POLA for the many many people who
> > haven't updated to 3.x from 2.2 yet.
>
> If we were integrating TCP Wrapper support into the base system for the
> very firs
> First, the setting in /etc/defaults/rc.conf should default to off, as
> defaulting it to on violates POLA for the many many people who haven't
> updated to 3.x from 2.2 yet.
Personally, I don't care what is the default in 3.x, but it should be ON
by default in 4.0.
> I propose tha
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 18:37:51 MST, Doug wrote:
> This is going to sound like I'm attacking sheldon, but I'm not
> since he's already stated that the got approval for this change from
> Jordan.
Jordan will be the first to admit that he's been wrong before and I have
a thick skin.
>
This is going to sound like I'm attacking sheldon, but I'm not since he's
already stated that the got approval for this change from Jordan.
Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> Inetd now takes command-line options to enable wrapping. This was a
> decision taken with the approval of our release engine
Hi folks,
I've just committed a change to inetd that will effectively turn TCP
Wrapping off for anyone who has an installed /etc/rc.conf that specifies
an inetd_flags value, as well as anyone who makes world without running
mergemaster to update /etc/defaults/rc.conf .
This will not be a proble
