> 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 the trend used to be to move more server >>> processes to be added to the inetd config. Am I missing something? >> >>xinetd is available for F10...it depends, greatly, on what options you >>chose when you installed. For example, if you didn't select to install >>telnet or some other tools, it may not have opted to install xinetd. >> >>Many services do not run, usually, from xinetd, such as ssh or httpd, >>though they could be made to do so >> >>Was there something specific that you wanted to run, that would normally >>require xinetd? > > The backup program amanda comes to mind, portions of its server utils are > xinetd.d controlled. I'm guessing, then, that "yum install amanda" would then install xinetd as a prerequisite. But, as noted, if Amanda was not selected at install time, like telnet server, etc., Anaconda would not have grabbed xinetd for installation. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
