[ On Monday, February 24, 2003 at 12:37:47 (-0500), Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: tcpserver
>
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 at 11:50am, Casey Shobe wrote
>
> > Is there any way to make amanda work in standalone mode or with tcpserver?
> > I really do not want to have to install inetd...
> >
> xinetd works quite well
Perhaps for some folks, but certianly not for all!
Note also that for all intents and proposes xinetd is an inetd.
> and is much more secure than inetd.
I seriously doubt that. In fact I believe there's ample proof to the
contrary with several security advisories against xinetd and none that
I'm aware of against at least the *BSD inetds.
Also note that most (all?) of the *BSD inetds include integrated hooks
to TCP Wrappers.
Finally note that Amanda doesn't just use TCP -- it also uses UDP and
you really can't use libwrap effectively on most UDP services.
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