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Re: xinetd is a viable inet-superserver



Steve Greenland schrieb:
> On 28-Nov-07, 05:25 (CST), Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote: 
>> Pierre Habouzit schrieb:
>>>   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.
> 
> The difference is that other packages don't manipulate log file
> configuration. 
> 

Well, packages shouldn't manipulate the inetd.conf file directly anyway
but use the update-inetd interface.


Cheers,
Michael

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