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 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. I haven't the foggiest, Mike. I don't run amanda from an rpm, as has been discussed here at considerable length & with no little heat. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Armor's Axiom: Virtue is the failure to achieve vice. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
