Re: inetd.conf trashed

[jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen)]

On May 6, Kevin Dalley wrote
> I had the same problem.  This is definitely a critical bug, having
> inetd.conf may destroy many programs.  I couldn't find any obvious
> problems when perusing /var/lib/dpkg/info, so the bug may have been fixed
> already.  Does anyone know what caused the problem?

An old version of cvs or cvs-pcl was buggy and trashed inetd.conf. The
solution to recreate it, is something like 
	cd /var/lib/dpkg/info
	for file in `grep -l inetd *postinst`; do
	  ./$file
	done

HTH,
Ray
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