Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-30 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 22:11 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > Is there a movement to get rid of xinetd? It's just that I remember > that the trend used to be to move more server processes to be added to > the inetd config. As I recall, the trend was to move away from it, with individual scripts per se

Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:21:28AM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > You should file bug reports if that's the case. > > Well, in the git-daemon case, I'm now one of the maintainers. So I > can more easily fix the problem directly. ;) > > I think there are some valid reaso

Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Mike Burger wrote: >> On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Mike Burger wrote: On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Mike Burger wrote: >> I just noticed that my F10 system does not even have xinetd >> installed. >> I >> can certainly install it if I want, but I was just suprised t

Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Mike Burger
> On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Mike Burger wrote: >>> On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Mike Burger wrote: > I just noticed that my F10 system does not even have xinetd > installed. > I > can certainly install it if I want, but I was just suprised that it > was > not installed by default.

Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Mike Burger wrote: >> On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Mike Burger wrote: I just noticed that my F10 system does not even have xinetd installed. I can certainly install it if I want, but I was just suprised that it was not installed by default. Is there a movement

Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/26/2009 07:47 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Markku Kolkka wrote: >> A program that can run either as a stand-alone daemon or under >> xinetd doesn't _require_ xinetd. > > Sure. But some of the packages are being setup to xinetd by default, > and it can be a pain to find that you install it an

Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Todd Zullinger
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > You should file bug reports if that's the case. Well, in the git-daemon case, I'm now one of the maintainers. So I can more easily fix the problem directly. ;) I think there are some valid reasons for packages to drop files into /etc/xinet.d and not require xinetd, but wh

Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Todd Zullinger
Markku Kolkka wrote: > A program that can run either as a stand-alone daemon or under > xinetd doesn't _require_ xinetd. Sure. But some of the packages are being setup to xinetd by default, and it can be a pain to find that you install it and it does not work by default. Take git-daemon for exam

Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Markku Kolkka
Todd Zullinger kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 26. toukokuuta 2009): > It seems that about half of the packages that place files in > /etc/xinetd.d require xinetd and half do not. I'm not sure > why that is in many cases. A program that can run either as a stand-alone daemon or under

Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Todd Zullinger
Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:58:04AM -0400, Mike Burger wrote: [...] >> But, as noted, if Amanda was not selected at install time, like >> telnet server, etc., Anaconda would not have grabbed xinetd for >> installation. > > The amanda package requires xinetd: > > $ repoquery

Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:58:04AM -0400, Mike Burger wrote: > > > On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Mike Burger wrote: > >>> I just noticed that my F10 system does not even have xinetd installed. > >>> I > >>> can certainly install it if I want, but I was just suprised that it was > >>> not installed by de

Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Mike Burger
> On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Mike Burger wrote: >>> I just noticed that my F10 system does not even have xinetd installed. >>> I >>> can certainly install it if I want, but I was just suprised that it was >>> not installed by default. Is there a movement to get rid of xinetd? >>> It's >>> just that I

Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Mike Burger wrote: >> I just noticed that my F10 system does not even have xinetd installed. I >> can certainly install it if I want, but I was just suprised that it was >> not installed by default. Is there a movement to get rid of xinetd? It's >> just that I remember that

Re: Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-26 Thread Mike Burger
> I just noticed that my F10 system does not even have xinetd installed. I > can certainly install it if I want, but I was just suprised that it was > not installed by default. Is there a movement to get rid of xinetd? It's > just that I remember that the trend used to be to move more server > proc

Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

2009-05-25 Thread Steven W. Orr
I just noticed that my F10 system does not even have xinetd installed. I can certainly install it if I want, but I was just suprised that it was not installed by default. Is there a movement to get rid of xinetd? It's just that I remember that the trend used to be to move more server processes