Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 18:07:53 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> Cc: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/15820: A Y2K class bug when setting atime & mtime by receive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003091803340.27516-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <20000309124235.D422@argon.blackdawn.com>
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:50:03AM -0800, Ade Lovett wrote:
> > (I'm still not overly impressed by some of the stuff in the PLIST).
>
> I'm not impressed at all.
>
> > @@ -25,7 +23,6 @@
> > @exec echo -e 'saft\tstream\ttcp\tnowait\troot\t/usr/local/sbin/sendfiled sendfiled' >> /etc/inetd.conf
> > @exec echo -e 'saft\t\t487/tcp\t# simple asynchronous file transfer'>>/etc/services
> > @exec kill -HUP `ps auxw|awk '$11 == "inetd" { print $2 } '`
> > -
> > @unexec perl -pi.bak -e '/^saft/ && ($_="")' /etc/inetd.conf
> > @unexec kill -HUP `ps auxw|awk '$11 == "inetd" { print $2 } '`
> > @unexec rm -R /var/spool/sendfile
>
> This stuff is silly. IMO, no port should ever modify /etc files (other than
> shells, for obvious reasons), much less send signals to an arbitrary daemon.
> There are far too many assumptions made by this PLIST, some of which may
> threaten security.
FWIW, I agree with this. We should standardize on a particular name of a
file, that would sit in files/, and should describe in plain language any
needed startup tasks. We should *never* mess with stuff of the base
system.
Only a smallish percentage of ports need this file; it should be added to
packaging, so that someone installing the package could get at it
too. I'm not adamant about the method (requiring all such ports [that
need startup tasks] to install a
share/doc/${PKGNAME}/startup-configuration-tasks
would also be a reasonable alternative.
>
>
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Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD,
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