On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:44:38PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Peter Mathiasson wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 05:35:22PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > > <crazy>I guess maybe one would want some neater interface to all this > > > inetd.conf stuff? Some debconf thingy? A bit like the nice debconf > > > question asking whether one wants wdm, xdm, kdm or gdm to be the display > > > manager? That is implemented with init.d scripts checking > > > "default-display-manager" file though, this will have to work quite > > > differently. But for mere talkd, this whole interactive idea is a bit > > > overkill.</crazy> > > > > That would make it easier for inetd alternatives, such as xinetd, to correctly update > > their configuration files. > > Isn't that why we have update-inetd(8) ? update-inetd doesnt update xinetd.conf. I noticed that redhat now uses xinetd by default, and they have a directory in /etc, I think /etc/xinetd.d or something (works the same as cron.d, pam.d, logrotate.d, etc, etc). I dont know if thats a better way of doing it or not.. Thanks, Norbert
Attachment:
pgpETOfks0WUj.pgp
Description: PGP signature