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Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf



On Jul 23, Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@lysator.liu.se> wrote:

> Packages containing servers that can be started from inetd should all provide 
> an xinetd configuration file in /etc/xinetd.d. They will instantly work with 
Way too much work, and "better support for xinetd" is not something
important enough to justify it.

> xinetd, and update-inetd can use the information, which is a superset 
> (right?) of that used by other inetd's, to update the old-school inetd.conf.
A simpler fix is to create an update-inetd program which will update the
xinetd configuration. This does not require to modify any other package
(except optionally the original update-inetd program to handle the
transition between the two packages).

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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