Re: Splitting client-server packages
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote:
> When I upgraded ssh recently I was very annoyed to notice that the package
> merrily popped all the symlinks I had removed from /etc/rc?.d and
> /etc/init.d that start sshd back in again, and the thought of having to go
> through and delete them all again really made me miffed. Since the only
> reason I have the ssh package in is because of being a debian devver, I
> thought it might be a good idea if packages such as this were split up into
> two parts - client and server.
Of course, you could always just convert the S links to K links and
upgrades wouldn't touch them. :)
OTOH, is there a particular reason you don't want sshd running? It gets
swapped out if you don't use it and it a good deal more secure than
telnetd and rlogind
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