[Sunhelp] wierd problem after installing latest patch cluster

[Shawn C Lander]

We figured it out.  Working over the phone with Wally I never bothered
to ask what inetd.conf he was editing.  Somehow the patch cluster
removed the symbolic link /etc/inetd.conf->/etc/inet/inetd.conf
and Wally was editing the file in /etc/inet/ so he didn't realize
the file was not there.  (It was something obvious.)

Altho that brings up a curious problem.  How were the services working
in the first place... and how was commenting and uncommenting the
finger service taking effect?



>> 
>> The machine is not using TCP wrappers... so we know that hosts.deny
>> is not the culprit.
>
>You should put wrappers on, to log incoming connections (at the very least
>- it's a rather basic logging mechanism, but it's a good first step)
> 

It's going to be wrapped... just after this is fixed... and probably
after upgrading to solaris 7. At least I think that's Wally's plans 
(I messed up his email before... wally at agen.ufl.edu).


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