[gentoo-dev] Re: xinetd configuration

[Andreas Voegele]

Jerry Alexandratos writes:

> : 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 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.

That's what I meant. Mandrake puts the default values and the
includedir statement into /etc/xinetd.conf. Everything else goes into
the directory /etc/xinetd.d.

But in contrast to Mandrake it might be good to restrict the access to
the localhost for security reasons, eg by using "only_from=localhost"
as a default value or by putting a corresponding rule into
/etc/hosts.deny.

-- 
Andreas