Armin K. wrote:
> I was looking at TCP Wrapper and there is really no use for it on modern 
> Linux kernels. It's real purpose were monitoring and filtering network 
> access to some services iirc. But today Netfilter and Iptables do that 
> and lot more, so I suggest we remove it and don't even mention it. It's 
> way too old, unmaintained and imho unnecesary today.

I agree that it's unnecessary and I generally do not install it, but I 
also think that many people expect it.  Here is a list of packages that 
reference it:

gdm
esound
nfs-utils
rpcbind
stunnel
openssh
sane
lprng
cups
openldap
exim
sendmail
mysql
vsftpd

It is a very old program.  The date I see is 1997.  On the other hand, I 
don't think it is any effort to just leave it in the book.

What do others think?

   -- Bruce
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