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Re: xinetd is a viable inet-superserver



Pierre Habouzit schrieb:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:15:05AM +0000, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> 
>>>   Since xinetd conflicts with inet-superserver it's the sole one that
>>> can honour /etc/inetd.conf.
>> Well, not completely true. There might be more than one understanding.
>> Mine is that providing a inet-superserver provides the _functionality_
>> of a inet-superserver not the same _config file_.
> 
>   wrong. providing inet-superserver means that you are able to perform
> what any implementation of inetd(8) does, namely, reading
> /etc/inetd.conf, and _then_ possibly have extended features on its own.
> 

I don't think this reasoning is correct. Take the existing
implementations of system-log-daemon/linux-kernel-log-daemon, like
rsyslog, syslog-ng or metalog. All use a different config file than
/etc/syslog.conf.

Cheers,
Michael

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