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On Mon, 13 May 2002 13:50, James Vandenberg wrote: |
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> This is what Luke at Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:53:42AM +1000 wrote: |
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> > Youve spent a lot of time thinking about the details of your system, |
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> > without answering one simple question. |
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> > Why is this needed? |
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> For one very simple reason. It makes life easier for system administrators, |
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> users, and maintainers. |
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No, it wont. |
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> An example is with Inetd/Xinetd. These two programs have the same function, |
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> but wildly different configuration file formats. Now how should the telnet |
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> daemon be installed? Should it give an example of how it should be |
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> installed in inetd syntax, or xinetd syntax? So if it tells me how to |
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> install telnet into inetd, but I'm running xinetd, it doesn't help me as |
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> much as if it were in xinetd syntax. |
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Learn one. Use it. Go on with your life. |
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Luke |
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