Larry Price wrote,
>Why the hell does bittorrent deserve a startup script?
I dunno, but after pondering for a few moments, I wonder if perhaps the
packager has decided that you want to be a good citizen of the bittorrent
community by keeping your daemon running as long as possible?
>In 2008 is there a reason I would want to run inetd?
Only if you want to provide services that run under inetd. In your
case that probably means "No". But looking through /etc/inetd.conf, I
can see a few things that some people might still want to run today
(imapd, for example).
>And NFS was nice when disks were scarce, but should machines that may
>not be able to trust their routing or switching fabric be
>communicating using unencrypted block network protocols?
NFS is nice if you're running a server for a flock of *nix workstations,
for the same reason that samba is nice if you're running a server for a
flock of Windows workstations.
If you need NFS over a network you don't trust, an encrypted VPN is probably
the way to go.
Of course these days it goes without saying that the safe approach would
be to ship with everything turned off by default, and make users turn
on the things they need. But I guess that wouldn't be "convenient" enough
for the users.
At least we've gotten past the days when Sun used to ship Unix boxes with
an /etc/hosts.equiv file containing a single "+" sign, which allowed
anybody in the whole world to log into your machine without a password, if
they could guess one of your usernames (Sun called this a "feature", and
for years they refused to remove it from their default installation,
despite lots of loud cursing from their customers).
- Neil Parker
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