On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 07:15:37PM -0400, allen wrote: > Uh, it's not really "impossible". ( ...borrows fireproof pants ) > > http://www.prismnet.com/~aef/index2.html > ( I mention this one only because of applicability to a stand-alone system > based on Mandrake with Netfilter and libipq. ) > > http://hogwash.sourceforge.net > > I'm not actually trying to promote these things for this purpose at this time, > I am just saying that this issue is really not "impossible". > > Not kidding. Not enough time and developer bandwidth or it would be more than > possible already for this purpose.
First of all your examples are all things that manipulate iptables rules and require a lot of setup to make work on the users perspective. Comparing that to something that is going to (without an user intervention) modify procmail rules and not cause an interaction (and procmail is rife with interactiosn) is silly. But that's beside the point. It's a waste of Mandrake's time because the *correct* way of implementing this is providing hooks in the client and the server. This will probably happen sooner or later and Mandrake would spend a lot of time and energy implementing something that: a) would break for a lot of people and b) will become obsolete when the clients do implement the hooks. So it's just not worth the time. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
