On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 08:50:09PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:44:32PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > > > the point is, unless there is some hairy and complicated testing in > > (pre|post)(inst|rm), the best solution is to make all finger daemons > > conflict with each other. At least until there is some other way of dealing > > with /etc/inetd.conf than update-inetd (e.g. debconf query). > > And there is not much advantage in having more finger daemons installed > > simultaneously anyway. > > Well, if everyone copied the netstd code in the first place, we won't be > having this discussion. It's really simple, your own entry is identified
In the first place, there was no fingerd when I packaged efingerd. I copied cfingerd code, lost some hair in debugging it and wrote my own, depending on Conflicts: (all other daemons) to circumvent misfeatures in cfingerd (and others) postinst. > by the pattern given by the name of your daemon. If there is an uncommented > fingerd entry at postinst time, add your own entry but comment it out. > Otherwise add it as usual. At removal time, use the pattern to remove your > entry. > > Conflicts aren't needed and there is no hairy and complicated testing. after uninstalling both fingerd and cfingerd my /etc/inetd.conf contains: #:INFO: Info services finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.fingerd #<off># finger stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/cfingerd now I issue this command: (taken from fingerd postinst) update-inetd --group INFO --add "#finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.fingerd" and now my /etc/inetd.conf contains: #:INFO: Info services finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.fingerd finger stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/cfingerd I was going to explain it, when a mail from Josip Rodin just arrived :-) See an explanation in his mail. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
