[Fusionforge-general] xinetd vs inetd

Keith.DeSolla at Zarlink.Com Keith.DeSolla at Zarlink.Com
Thu Dec 17 17:14:02 CET 2009


ok, thanks Roland.


-keith




Roland Mas <lolando at debian.org> 
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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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