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Re: Any Old Port In A Storm



On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:47:57AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote:

> Yes. An update-services similar to update-modules would be a Very Good
> Thing. We invent a lot of our own services, many of which get run out of
> inetd. That means we need to put an entry in /etc/services, and it is
> very annoying to have that file get overwritten by debian upgrades. We
> attack the problem with cfengine's editfiles command, but it would be
> much nicer to just drop a file into /etc/services.d.

services.d would be a broken solution.  

what happens when two packages drop something in their with the same
port numbers?

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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