On 2001.03.06 07:30:11 +0400 Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2001 06:42, Eugenio Diaz wrote:
> > When you upgrade an rpm that contains a script with "chkconfig --add
> > servicename" you get a script filed message, when in fact nothing bad
> > happened, just that the service already existed and chkconfig returns a
> > status of 1.
>
> We had this discussion last week - I raised it. The problem is that
> Mandrake's version of chkconfig -add is broken at higher security levels
> (4
> or 5). If the service is not listed in /etc/security/msec/server.4 but
> the
> service is on, Mandrake's chkconfig -add will turn it off. This is a
> bug.
> What it should do is quietly return success and not do anything.
>
> I've been burned by this several times, getting services turned off that
> were
> running.
>
> The workaround, at least until chkconfig gets fixed, is to add the
> services
> manually to /etc/security/msec/server.4
Or to run msec --custom, and answer 'no' to the question 'disallow rpm to
add new services'.
--
Guillaume Rousse
Murphy's law : If anything can go wrong, it will.
O'Tool's commentary : Murphy was an optimist.
