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[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

Cast used to stop and start the service. That behaviour was changed. It
was noted that starting and stopping services automatically was
generally a bad thing. Perhaps there should be a note in the spell that
due to security concerns, the server should be restarted?

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 10:28, Robin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:20:59PM +0200, Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> > Port 22 is in use.
> No it wasn't, that was the first thing I checked (given it looked the 
> most obvious)
> 
> > There is 0.77 in both test and stable grimoire. Try recast Linux-PAM and
> > subsequently openssh.
> Yeah, eventually that worked. Man, so much stuff depends on Linux-PAM! 
> :)
> 
> BTW, should the init script for, say, openssh restart the daemon if it 
> is running? (that wasn't my problem, but it wsa something I noticed it 
> didn't do). Given it doesn't you could end up running a vulnerable 
> version without realising it.