> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Karl J. Runge wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, mike ledoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I believe that redhat switched to xinetd with RH7.0, but I don't have
> > > a RH7 system handy to verify this. If so, that could be your problem.
> >
> > Is there a good reason xinetd (at least from redhat) doesn't install
> > its binary into /usr/sbin/inetd and read its config file from
> > /etc/inetd.conf? Shouldn't it be a superset of the std Unix inetd? (e.g.
> > the netkit one) What a pain for admins if it isn't...
xinetd uses a different config file format than inetd. It has a number
of nice features, but I'm real comfortable with inetd, so I haven't
switched. xinetd is the default for RedHat 7.0 and Mandrake 7.2. I might
switch later after I've used it more.
I think of it like proftpd vs. wu-ftpd. proftpd has a lot of nice
features, a config file with apache-like syntax, better security. And I
still use wu-ftpd because I haven't taken the time to learn proftpd. (At
least in inetd's case, I feel it's fairly secure. I'm not so sure of
wu-ftpd.)
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