On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 00:00:24 -0500 Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lesson #2, I just learned today that the raspbian AND debian buster > 10.2 versions have NO inetd or xinetd. Ditto for RH. I don't know where you get that idea, as far as Debian goes. root@jhegaala:~# cat /etc/debian_version 10.2 root@jhegaala:~# apt-cache search inetd | grep inetd inetutils-inetd - internet super server libnl-idiag-3-200 - library for dealing with netlink sockets - inetdiag interface openbsd-inetd - OpenBSD Internet Superserver puppet-module-puppetlabs-xinetd - Puppet module for xinetd reconf-inetd - maintainer script for programmatic updates of inetd.conf rinetd - Internet TCP redirection server rlinetd - gruesomely over-featured inetd replacement update-inetd - inetd configuration file updater xinetd - replacement for inetd with many enhancements root@jhegaala:~# Indeed, amanda depends on openbsd-inetd: root@jhegaala:~# apt show amanda-common | grep inetd WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts. Depends: adduser, bsd-mailx | mailx, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver, update-inetd, perl (>= 5.28.0-3), perlapi-5.28.0, libc6 (>= 2.27), libcurl4 (>= 7.16.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.41.1), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0) root@jhegaala:~# I believe that we should remove the dependencies on openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver and update-inetd, and make those suggested, and encourage amanda over SSH, but that's another can of lawyers. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
