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Re: portmap (was Re: SECURITY PROBLEM: autofs [all versions])



On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:27:27PM +0200, Sebastian Rittau wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:56:00AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > More problematic though, is that netbase and friends not only rerun
> > update-rc.d on upgrades, but they also restart the service (or run
> > /etc/init.d/* restart or something similar anyway).
> Maybe the policy should state that "/etc/init.d/* restart" only starts
> the service if it was successfully stopped, i. e. it was running
> before. I think, restarting services on upgrade is quite useful
> (it it doesn't cause harm).

And for services that have to be stopped in prerm and restarted in
postinst? (portmap, eg)

Search for start-rc.d in previous threads.

Cheers,
qj (typing on an azerty keyboard and not loving it)

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