On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Matej Cepl <mcepl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Martin Langhoff, Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:29:48 +0200: >> In other words, xinetd is a saviour when you are running OLPC's School >> Servers :-) > > That's not the point Steve was trying to make (I guess) ... what you need > could be easily as well accomplished by its predecessory inetd server I've used both. xinetd has lots of useful features (conf.d-style config, rate limiting, etc). My understanding was that it aimed at being a better inetd, and within those goals, it definitily does the trick. And anyone taking on xinetd maintainership has my respect and a few beers next time we meet. Maybe inetd has grown all those same features in the meantime? If it does, the manpage I have at hand right now doesn't know about it. cheers, m > which does bascially the same thing (and is default on Debian for > example, http://packages.debian.org/sid/inetutils-inetd). > > Matěj > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
