other distros have a nice hunk of syntactic sugar (so simple it
could be a shell function -- a separate script file seems like
overkill) called
service <initscript> <start/stop/restart>
which runs /etc/init.d/* scripts. how come woody doesn't have
such a thing by default? i'm wondering if there's a security
issue that isn't obvious to the neophyte...?
# bash:
function service {
if [ -x /etc/init.d/$1 ]; then
bash /etc/init.d/$*
fi
}
then it'd be cool to add some "programmable completion" to save a
keystroke or two...
would this be a bad idea for a superuser shell function?
i can see that a black hat can issue something like
service bind \; cat /etc/passwd
but since he's already root, what's the real cost?
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Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #132 from Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
Wondering WHY PACKAGES ARE BEING HELD BACK by apt?
1.Start aptitude.
2.Search for <your package of interest>.
3.Press enter to display package description and dependencies.
4.Scroll to bottom to view available versions.
5.Highlight held-back version and press enter and scroll through
list to find dependencies that are not being met.
(Repeatedly press "q" to close displayed information
and exit aptitude.)
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
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