On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:07:31PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > Anyway, here's the setup.hint (which is causing such problems): > > sdesc: "Common networking clients and servers" > ldesc: "inetutils provides common networking clients and > servers, including the inetd super-server, telnetd and > telnet, ftpd and ftp, rshd and rsh, rlogind and rlogin, > talkd and talk, tftpd and tftp, rexecd (but no rexec), > uucpd (but no uucp client), rcp, and syslogd. > > Most of these utilities are security nightmares, dating > from a time when the internet was a more innocent place. > It is NOT recommended that you enable or use ANY of these > utilities -- except inetd and syslogd -- unless you have > a VERY good reason. Please consider using ssh and sshd > from the 'openssh' package instead of telnet and the r* > tools" > category: Net > requires: cygwin terminfo > curr: 1.3.2-37 > test: 1.5-1
I doubt that this is the problem but you are making your ldesc's too wordy. It should just be a couple of sentences, not an advertisement for or against the use of the package. cgf
