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Re: xinetd diversions and questions



On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Adam P. Harris wrote:

> 
> [You (Adam Heath)]
> >A while back I started maintaining xinetd for Boris, as his internet
> >connection isn't the best right now.  I have given some thought on how to
> >handle the entire /etc/init.d/{netbase,xinetd} issue.
> >
> >The best way, I think, instead of mucking with netbase, is to use a diversion
> >on /usr/sbin/inetd.  This way, if portmap ever changes names again, there
> >should be any problems.  Eventually, I will write a update-inetd that will
> >know about xinetd, and divert that also.
> 
> I agree that diversion are the way to go.  I'm not sure what would happen,
> however, if you diverted inetd w/o diverting update-inetd.  Is that going 
> to cause a lot of problems?  Perhaps if you don't have time to do it, you 
> could look for volunteers?

I would like to do this myself, but I don't know perl.  The update-xinetd
would have to simultaneous update inetd.conf and xinetd.conf.  Any volunteers?

> At the *very* least, you should divert update-inetd with a script that
> says "You will have to manually add lines for the daemon XXXX to /etc/
> xinetd.conf (or whatever) until this script is complete.  Press return 
> to continue."

This is easy to do.  But it is only a half-solution(although half is better
than none).

Adam



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