[18] in Security FYI
Re: new security hole found in amd program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Aug 25 10:11:57 1999
To: "Eric Prud'hommeaux" <eric@w3.org>
Cc: net-security@MIT.EDU, security-fyi@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 25 Aug 1999 10:11:43 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Eric Prud'hommeaux"'s message of "Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:29:11 -0400"
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"Eric Prud'hommeaux" <eric@w3.org> writes:
> in the Redhat instructions, it says to:
> rm /etc/rc.d/rc[0-9].d/S[0-9][0-9]amd
>
> This will leave the rpm database in an uninformed state. I believe it
No, it won't; as with most modern packages, am-utils creates the rc?.d
symlinks in a post-install script rather than including them directly.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
