Oh yes I failed to check it carefully. Who is the current maintainer of
samba? Wanna take a look at this, thanks?
Abel Cheung
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Friday 13 April 2001 10:19, R.I.P. Deaddog wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > > The Samba uninstall utility appears to be dependent on inetd, not xinetd,
> > > and does not function properly with just xinetd installed. By looking at
> > > the code, I think it will leave around swat in /etc/services. I haven't
> > > tested this, since I can't afford to uninstall samba on this system.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > perl -ni -e 'print unless (/^swat\W+/ || /^#swat\W+/)'
> > > /etc/inetd.conf perl -ni -e 'print unless /^swat\W+/' /etc/services
> > > service xinetd reload &>/dev/null || :
> >
> > No, it will work, just a little ugly. since inetd is no more now,
> > modifying /etc/inetd.conf is harmless. Besides, leaving some extra entries
> > in /etc/services isn't harmful at all too. Since /etc/xinetd.d/swat is
> > removed, xinetd will reload without swat entry and everything is fine.
>
> Actually, no. The very first line that you cut checked for the existence of
> inetd.conf. If it doesn't exist, nothing hapens, so swat remains in
> /etc/services, and xinetd will not be reloaded.
>
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