Re: naive user

[Remco Blaakmeer <remco-blaakmeer@quicknet.nl>]

On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote:

> Montreal Mon Mar 15 19:03:54 1999
> 
> A long while ago, I recompiled my /usr/sbin/tcpd so that it properly
> does IDENT lookups on all connections and I replaced my old
> /usr/sbin/tcpd with the newly compiled one.
> 
> Relatively recently, I upgraded to Hamm and naturally, netbase was
> upgraded including my custom compiled tcpd.  It's only today that I
> noticed that I was losing attack information and so I had to recompile
> my tcpd and replace it.
> 
> Is there a better way to handle this sort of thing?  Being a naive
> user I simply copied over the default Debian binary and forgot all
> about it but I hear rumours that in those in the BSD world have a
> clean way of handling such things.

The clean way to do this is to put all your customised programs under
/usr/local/. In the case of tcpd, you should of course edit
/etc/inetd.conf so inetd uses the customised tcpd. In general,
/usr/local/bin should be one of the first directories in the PATH, before
/usr/bin and /bin.

Files under /usr (except everything under /usr/local) will be overwritten
without warning if you upgrade your system.

Remco
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