[Fusionforge-general] xinetd vs inetd

Roland Mas lolando at debian.org
Thu Dec 17 17:10:00 CET 2009


Keith.DeSolla at Zarlink.Com, 2009-12-02 10:58:11 -0600 :

> hi,
>
> The FusionForge install is looking for inetd, but I think xinetd has been 
> standard on RedHat for a while.   If I look at "gforge-install-1-deps.php" 
> I see that xinetd is specified for a SuSE, but inetd is specified for 
> Redhat:

[...]

> The only other reference I see is in "utils/sffingerd.c":
>
>   MUST BE RUN UNDER inetd
>    finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/local/sbin/sffingerd fingerd

  I think that file can safely be ignored.  I don't think it's been used
in the last 10 years or so.

> Is there any reason why it shouldn't work under Redhat using xinetd
> instead of inetd?

  No good reason, probably, only the bad reason that nobody's changed
the dependency yet.

Roland.
-- 
Roland Mas

...your network won't even know it's talking to a proxy, unless of
course, the proxy doesn't work.  -- in Linux 2.4 NAT HOWTO




More information about the Fusionforge-general mailing list