[Bug 213832] Review Request: arpwatch - Network monitoring tools for tracking IP addresses on a network

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Summary: Review Request: arpwatch - Network monitoring tools for tracking IP addresses on a network


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213832





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2006-11-10 08:48 EST -------
> rpm checks return code of the program executing the scriptlet, /bin/sh in this
> case, and exit 0 guarantees it will return 0. This is the same as adding "||:"
> to the last command in the script.

Ok.

> > * why isn't the useradd only done for the first install?
> 
> - the user may get deleted after first install or 

Do we really want to readd the user even if the admin removed it?

> there could be an upgrade from
> a broken/ancient version of arpwatch and arpwatch doesn't even start without the
> user (with default config)

What arpwatch version could it be? Is it a real or a theoretical issue?

> - other packages do the same

That's not a reason to do the same. Other packages may be broken.

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