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On Tuesday 05 July 2005 06:17 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: |
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> inetd is the old-unix-insecure implementation that it's usually used. |
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> xinetd is a (drop-in?) replacement for it which is now used by quite |
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> everyone who wants an inetd-style daemons. |
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you cant technically say it's a drop in since you have to redo the config |
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files, but for all intents and purposes, it is ... old school inetd suffered |
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from many issues (resource management being the foremost) so xinetd was |
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born ... it is the preferred inetd in Gentoo |
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> flame@enterprise ~ $ grep inetd devel/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.* |
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> devel/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc:dev-db/firebird:inetd - If you |
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> want inetd version instead of a superserver (daemon) |
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unrelated to anything in this e-mail |
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> so what we should do? |
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> Add a global xinetd useflag and a doxinetd function to add/remove the |
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> installed config files? |
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> Yeah i know they aren't so big.. but "the less, the best". |
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personally i'd support a doxinetd func that would check to see if xinetd is |
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installed rather than go with a USE flag ... |
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-mike |
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