> 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. Aaahhh...one of those TEHO situations. I don't read every thread on this list...if I did, I'd never get any work done. ;-) -- 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
