[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
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