On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:57:12AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > As far as I know, leaving inetd accepting connections would, > > worst case, fail -- which is no different from having the service > > disabled. In other words, I don't see that disabling the daemon > > solves anything useful.
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:15:54AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > I think the worst case would be a telnetd linked with a broken > shlib (or in the case of telnetd, perhaps a missing or broken > /usr/lib/telnetd/login) that gives a security hole. If you wish to > minimise downtime, the proper way to do it IMHO is to have certain > packages flagged as daemons, and they should be upgraded (by whatever > program that is in charge) one by one. Under what circumstances would this be in effect during an upgrade but not otherwise? -- Raul