sshd and file descriptors

Phil Howard phil-openssh-unix-dev at ipal.net
Fri Jun 28 01:12:31 EST 2002


On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:49:31AM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote:

| Em Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 12:10:57AM -0500, Phil Howard escreveu:
| > Should a package manager be restarting a daemon?
| 
| If it is already running, yes, that's a plus, many users forget to restart
| their services after an upgrade and are left vulnerable (if it's a
| security upgrade, for example). 

What about for those system administrators that don't want surprises?
I consider it a negative.  It should at least be a choice.

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