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Re: Logs and Permissions for Daemons



Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> Rodney Caston wrote:
>> 
>> > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
>> > 
>> > > And how many daemons are in debian? At least 300, I'd say.
>> > 
>> > How many would the average user have installed? Less than half, I'd
>> > say.
>> > 
>> > Anand
>> 
>> What? you mean you don't make it a a point to use every possible package
>> at once!?!?! 
>> 
>> </sarcasm>

> If you would bother to read policy before flaming, you would discover thse
> uid's are allocated stically, and thus they will be present in your
> /etc/passwd file no matter what you have installed.

And I'd appreciate it if you would get your facts straight before replying to
a flame.  The uids we are talking about at the moment are certainly NOT
statically allocated.
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