On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 02:03:07AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 05:15:33PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > For this, there should be some central authority deciding about > > /etc/inetd.conf. update-inetd is a good try, but not complete enough > > Something more like update-alternatives could work. > > update-inetd is just buggy (in design, if not implementation). > > > Package postinst should do something like: > > update-inetd-entry finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/efingerd > > Or, perhaps more sensibly: > > if [ "$SHOULD_I_ENABLE_THE_SERVICE" = "yes" ]; then > update-inetd finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/efingerd > fi > > ...where $SHOULD_I_ENABLE_THE_SERVICE is debconf'ed or something.
of course, that it up to the package maintainer to decide... together with decision if the package will run from inetd or as standalone daemon. > > Possibly: > > update-inetd --add finger/tcp nowait /usr/sbin/efingerd \ > --uid nobody -gid nobody > > would be a better syntax, with update-inetd having deprecated backwards > compatability for the current syntax. > > > and update-inetd-entry is a hypotetical program which comments out other > > finger entries, adds my finger entry, automagically adding tcp wrappers if > > they are installed. > ... > > and then (analogous to update-alternatives), it uncomments one of > > remaining daemons (if any) providing this service > > Hrm. Using its own database like update-alternatives, or comments in > /etc/inetd.conf, or...? Is update-alternatives really the example to > follow here? I suppose it makes a certain amount of sense. using own database makes it easier to actually implement, but I do not like the idea of Yet Another Database For Generation of Config File, and inetd.conf can serve by itself as such database as well (comments etc). Actually, I could implement something like that in no time in Python :-) Well, of course, it has to be in C to be feasible. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | 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!
