Re: killing daemons on package removal?
>>>>> " " == Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:
>>>>> "Goswin" == Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
Goswin> ssh server -l root # dpkg --purge ssh Connection closed by
Goswin> foreign host
Goswin> Purging ssh would kill shhd, which would kill the dpkg,
Goswin> which would leafe the system in a very inconsistent state.
> Why on earth would you purge ssh if you are currently using
> ssh?
> Anyway, killing sshd only prevents it from accepting new
> connections, not kill off existing connections (at least in
> potato). -- Brian May <bam@debian.org>
Yes I know, ssh does it right, xdm does it wrong.
/etc/init.d/xdm stop and all users scream.
MfG
Goswin
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