Re: Bug#2133: inetd(8) doesn't say whether/when looping services reenabled

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Peter Tobias writes:
> The next netbase package uses (a patched version of) the latest FreeBSD
> inetd. It doesn't support the ".max" suffix anymore (it uses a global
> command line option instead). The behaviour is also documented in the
> manpage:
...

IC, thanks.

I think this is something of a shame, actually, that it will no longer
support the .max suffix.  There are some services that one might well
want to specify a different maximum number for - certainly there are
systems in the University here that function less well than they might
because their inetd doesn't have this feature.

Why are we switching to the FreeBSD inetd ?

Ian.