[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh] > Exactly. Banging out with an error in update-rc.d if anything tries > that is the right thing to do.
Perhaps something like this is a good idea: --- debian/sysv-rc/sbin/update-rc.d 2007-12-15 23:58:51.000000000 +0100 +++ debian/sysv-rc/sbin/update-rc.d 2007-12-15 23:57:19.000000000 +0100 @@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ &usage() if ($#ARGV < 1); my $bn = shift @ARGV; + +unless ($bn =~ m/[a-zA-Z0-9+.-]+/) { + print STDERR "update-rc.d: illegal character in basename '$bn'\n"; + exit (1); +} + if ($ARGV[0] ne 'remove') { if (! -f "$initd/$bn") { print STDERR "update-rc.d: $initd/$bn: file does not exist\n"; @@ -103,8 +109,10 @@ die("update-rc.d: chdir $etcd$i.d: $!\n"); } opendir(DIR, "."); + my $saveBN=$bn; + $saveBN =~ s/\+/\\+/g; foreach $_ (readdir(DIR)) { - next unless (/^[SK]\d\d$bn$/); + next unless (/^[SK]\d\d$saveBN$/); $fn = "$etcd$i.d/$_"; $found = 1; $islnk = &is_link ($_[0], $fn, $bn); The patch is completely untested. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]