Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-29 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> James R Van Zandt writes: James> However, a relative newcomer might want to change his James> answers (having learned things since answering the first James> time). ! You're kidding! ;-) -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portl

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-29 Thread James R. Van Zandt
David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Let dpkg/diety do something like this: >0. The question was already answered during an old install (and stored > via dtxtdb or something better) -> take that answer ... If this feature is implemented, it should be governed by a meta-question. An experienc

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-28 Thread David Frey
> But I thought most people already complain, that there are too many > questions in the installer scripts (postinst). > > What do the others think about this? We probably should ask all questions at the end once? Let dpkg/diety do something like this: 0. The question was already answer

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Schwarz writes: > > > However, we should probably distinguish between "local daemons" and > > > "network daemons". I think it is pretty safe to start "lpd" on every > > > machine, since the default configuration would not accept queries from > > > foreign hosts. If I install the "lpd" pa

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > Christian Schwarz writes: > > > > > The situation looks completely different if the server has its own > > > > package, like `msqld' for the server and `msql' for the client. > > > > > > Not really -- the user should still be prompted (or have some co

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Mark Eichin writes: > > > The situation looks completely different if the server has its own > > package, like `msqld' for the server and `msql' for the client. > > Not really -- the user should still be prompted (or have some control > over it) because the daemon package probably contains the >

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Schwarz writes: > > > The situation looks completely different if the server has its own > > > package, like `msqld' for the server and `msql' for the client. > > > > Not really -- the user should still be prompted (or have some control > > over it) because the daemon package probably c

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 27 Jun 1997, Mark Eichin wrote: > > > The situation looks completely different if the server has its own > > package, like `msqld' for the server and `msql' for the client. > > Not really -- the user should still be prompted (or have some control > over it) because the daemon package probably

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-27 Thread Mark Baker
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > Therefore I recommend changing our policy slightly. I'll write down a > paragraph for our policy later (or would you like to step forward, > Christian?). > > If a package contains both a server and a client, and the server > opens another possibil

RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-27 Thread Martin Schulze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good evening, The most recent security post on bugtraq reminds me on this proposal. I have noticed that Debian packages are randomly installing services (except for rwhod). What I mean is that there are some Debian packages that contain both a server and a clie

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-27 Thread Mark Eichin
> The situation looks completely different if the server has its own > package, like `msqld' for the server and `msql' for the client. Not really -- the user should still be prompted (or have some control over it) because the daemon package probably contains the *documentation* for the daemon! I