Re: the netbase/inetd conspiracy
Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 08:46:20PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > I guess I just don't think of inetd as terribly heavy. It's easy to
> > turn off, and it's a small program. Makes this seem like a lot of
> > work then, since we have all kinds of programs that *somebody* might
> > have no use for, but we don't bother trying to factor, say, fileutils
> > into a jillion different packages.
>
> The difference is that fileutils doesn't offer services to other hosts
> on the network.
I should have said it's easy turn inetd off. Oh wait, I did say that.
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