Lorenzo Marcantonio <[email protected]> (Mo 10 Jul 2017 13:23:36 CEST): > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 04:30:34AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > It seems that inetd is required for amanda 1:3.3.9-5 on Debian 9 > > (stretch). In the days of SSH, is this necessary? I have no use for it, > > and if it isn't installed it can't be cracked. > > Amanda needs some kind of way to be launched when somebody knocks on a > port, when using standard authentication. Would that be inetd, xinetd or > some tool from daemontool/s6 or maybe probably systemd.
Modern Debian systems are shipped with systemd. So I suggest distributing
systemd socket unit files for use with Amanda. It is up to the admin, to
use these units or to setup (x)inetd or some other tool.
Best regards from Dresden/Germany
Viele Grüße aus Dresden
Heiko Schlittermann
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