[1390] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
[linux-security] Re: dos-attack on inetd.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Jagdis)
Fri Jan 17 07:49:14 1997
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:00:33 +0000 (GMT/BST)
From: Mike Jagdis <mike@roan.co.uk>
To: linux-security@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <19970115232347.10045.qmail@taz.nceye.net>
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
> [mod: I have objections to both suggestions: 1) Inetd is a program
> that simply shouldn't crash.
I went through similar heartache years ago with an, "unstable",
SYSV inetd. Ever since I have put such programs in /etc/inittab
as respawn jobs thereby making them "SHOULD NOT" exit rather
than "MUST NOT".
Mike
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