Since each application can have its own configuration file,
it's easier (and safer) to just create/blow away the config
files for each service instead of editing /etc/inetd.conf directly.
-Mark
Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
>
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Karl J. Runge wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, mike ledoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I believe that redhat switched to xinetd with RH7.0, but I don't have
> > > a RH7 system handy to verify this. If so, that could be your problem.
> >
> > Is there a good reason xinetd (at least from redhat) doesn't install
> > its binary into /usr/sbin/inetd and read its config file from
> > /etc/inetd.conf? Shouldn't it be a superset of the std Unix inetd? (e.g.
> > the netkit one) What a pain for admins if it isn't...
>
> It would be good if it did that, and maybe it does; this is a RH 6.2
> installation, so I wouldn't know. I do know that trying to work with two
> different distros at the same time is enlightening. Linux needs some
> standardization badly.
>
> BTW: I think my problem is that I did a "workstation" install instead of a
> "server" install. I'm trying that now.
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