Re: ?-able packages for a firewall.
Henry Hollenberg speed@barney.iamerica.net
On 4 Mar 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Remove diif, and mawk, and dpkg shall cease to work. (Not
> something I think is desirable). e2fsprogs: even firewall machines
> mght need an occasional fsck. Not a good idea to remove.
>
> debianutiles provides runparts, and savelog, and tempfile,
> which I think I'd like to have (cron etc need them), for rotating
> logs is nice. I am unsure about classifying this as critical (for a
> firewall machine). I have a feeling we should leave this alone too.
>
> basdutils provides /bin/kill.
>
> ed is also needed; unless red (whatever that is) is a drop in
> replacement ...
Thanks for the input I'll make those changes.
Somebody mentioned it to me this is all i've really tracked down about it:
Debian Package - ed 0.2-15
... ED 0.2-15 The classic unix line editor ed is a line-oriented
text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise
manipulate text files. red is a restricted ed: it can only edit
^^^
files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. Other
packages related to ed: = required = recommended ...
http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/editors/ed.html
01/16/98, 2065 bytes
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