In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "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. :(
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