Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:42:35 -0500 From: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/15820: A Y2K class bug when setting atime & mtime by receive Message-ID: <20000309124235.D422@argon.blackdawn.com> In-Reply-To: <200003091650.IAA22774@freefall.freebsd.org>; from ade@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:50:03AM -0800 References: <200003091650.IAA22774@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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.
--
Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
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