In message <[🔎] 20010619115405.A23473@ksu.edu>, Joseph Pingenot writes: >While we're at it, it'd be nice if the packages (on an update) didn't re-enable >themselves if I've disabled them. Inetd should check each of the runlevels to >see if it's currently enabled (/etc/rc?.d). If it's not, it shouldn't make it >so. The same goes for all the other services in /etc/rc?.d. Also, if it >isn't listed in /etc/inetd.conf, the admin has probably removed it, and it >shouldn't add itself back in. >Just something that's annoyed me when updating daily. :) They don't. If you leave any /etc/rc?.d links in place (I use a harmless K?? link), then any upgrade of that package will never re-enable the service. Check out the man page for update-rc.d for more information. I think update-inetd has a similar functionality. -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen secabeen@pobox.com Check Website or Keyserver for PGP/GPG Key BA0349D2 secabeen@uchicago.edu "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon secabeen@cabeen.org "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot cabeen@netcom.com
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