In message <[🔎] 20010619135318.L22841@morgul.net>, "Noah L. Meyerhans" writes: >On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:47:47AM -0700, Jamie Heilman wrote: >> No, you can't if you're plan is to uninstall inetd, the package structure is >> broken and won't allow it due to $@)!ed up dependancies. I've been trying >> to do it for ages. Then, when I found equivs I danced a jig. Its pretty >> much impossible to do in potato, I think you can pull it off in sid/woody >> though with the help of equivs - I haven't tried as my only unstable box >> actually needed inetd, and was only accessible from an internal network so >> I wasn't worried about inetd's underlying flaws wrt DoSability and lack of >> concurency limiting. If you use inetd on untrusted interface you are >> asking for pain, I thought that was fairly well understood by now. > >It's true that uninstalling it (in potato, anyway) is not worth all the >effort. But you can definitely disable it. I have "K20inetd" links in >all my /etc/rc?.d directories where I don't want to run inetd. Unfortunately, you can't do it in sid either without using equivs. netbase depends on netkit-inetd. :( -- 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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