Re: [gentoo-dev] xinetd configuration

[Jerry A!]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:17:55AM +0100, Andreas Voegele wrote:
: Hi!
:
: On Mandrake systems the package management system can add and remove
: services from the xinetd configuration without problems since the file
: /etc/xinetd.conf includes all files that were put into the directory
: /etc/xinetd.d by the installed packages.
:
: I'm wondering why Gentoo does not use such a scheme.
:
: It may be a security risk to enable all installed services by default
: but then /etc/init.d/xinetd shouldn't create /etc/xinetd.conf from

It may be easier to just have a xinetd.conf with the only entry being
"includedir /etc/xinetd.d".  Then you create a singular .conf file for
each service.  Each portage that needs a xinetd entry simply installs
its conf file into /etc/xinetd.d.  This is how pam/pam.d is currently
setup.

        --Jerry

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