On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Doug Munsinger wrote:
> Actually it is worse than that - RedHat 7 on a fresh install doesn't use
> inetd at all, but replaces it
> with xinetd, and /etc/xinetd.conf. Not sure what the upgrade would have
> done, but you may no longer be running inetd at all.
You can't run both and why would you?
The change is trivial to all but rpm developers.
> The xinetd.conf file as installed by RedHat sucks - it has no commented-out
> examples of each service, instead is almost completely blank. The man page
Um.. you did see xinetd.d?
> debugged it any further and won't because I am moving anything 7.0 back to
> 6.2 asap anyway, having concluded for myself that 7.0 is a horrible release
> and one more like this I will be running turbo linux or BSD., not redhat.
=)
You're ofcourse free to choose if new things frighten you.
