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Re: xinetd is a viable inet-superserver



On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:34:47PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>   [0] the reasoning is: this is clear to me that through update-inetd
>       that is the debian way to enable inet-like services, something
>       that claims to be an inet-superserver must react on update-inetd
>       triggered changes.  update-inetd atm only acts on /etc/inetd.conf,
>       so as a consequences I believe it's necessary for an
>       inet-superserver provider to grok /etc/inetd.conf.

This is at odds with many years of discussion on this mailing list, where
the consensus was that xinetd should have its own update-inetd that supports
the xinetd config format natively.

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