Re: Red Hat user shopping around
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 01:43, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
[snip]
> > They recently dumped inet for xinet. Instead of having one configuration file
> > in /etc/inetd.conf, they now have individual files per service in
> > /etc/xinetd.d/. I'm sure that makes sense to somebody, but it makes configuring
> > it a real headache.
>
> That just hurts...why would someone implement something in such an
> obviously painful manner?
Here's are the contents of /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd
service ftp
{
disable = no
id = ftp-stream
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
port = 21
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
server_args = -l -a
log_on_failure += USERID
}
It's supposed to be more secure, and it logs to syslog which
services are bound to which ports, and logs if something fails
to initialize. Also, it may be a bit more secure to not have to
edit inetd.conf for _everything_. When you install a new package,
the pkg manager just creates a new file in /etc/xinetd.d.
All in all, though, I still prefer inetd. Mdk must think it's
special, since they haven't shipped inetd since 7.1.
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