Why is it stupid?  What is xinetd anyway?  What does it do?

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:59 -0600, Kashani wrote:
> Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > The problem is that I don't know what's providing IMAP/POP3 on the FC1
> > box.  In redhat-config-services they're just listed as "imap" and
> > "ipop3".  I did a full install of FC1 on that box, so all of the
> > packages were already installed; I just had to edit a couple of files
> > in /etc/sysconfig and start the daemons.  All I know about the IMAP and
> > POP3 services is that they depend on xinetd.   Does that help?
> 
> What's the output of:
> rpm -qa | grep -i imap
> 
> You might also be able to tell what you're running by looking at the 
> xinetd conf files. Though running IMAP out of xinetd has to be one of 
> the stupidest default settings I've ever heard.
> 
> kashani
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