inetd

[Cef]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 12:49, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> We currently ship inetd in base, with all built-in services disabled and no
> external services provided.  In this light, I don't think there is much
> point in causing it to be installed by default on every new Ubuntu system.
>
> Any objections to demoting it to Supported?

The issue with doing this in Debian was that netbase depends on netkit-inetd, 
so it'll be installed anyway. So unless you don't 
consider /etc/services, /etc/protocols and /etc/rpc somewhat necessary to a 
networked system, this was a no-no.

The netbase package (on Debian) contains update-inetd as well (which only 
supports inetd I might add), which is part of the problem.

At least, and this is probably the easiest thing we could do for warty, we 
could change /etc/init.d/inetd to check for the 
file /etc/default/netkit-inetd and if it contains 'ENABLED="true" then start 
inetd, otherwise don't start it. Just a matter of providing a default of 
"false" in that file, and a way of changing it for those people that want it 
(preferably noted in a comment in /etc/inetd.conf so it's easy to find for 
the power user/admin when they try and figure out what's going on).

-- 
 Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - cef at optus.net