On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 10:01, Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Once upon a time, Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> I believe it's unlikely that somobody will adopt xinetd. It was orphaned
> because its maintainer orphaned all his packages.
Are there replacements for the old services built in to xinetd? It's a
surprise, but there are still network devices for service provider
networks that want to use time and/or daytime to set their clocks at
boot (so $DAYJOB still has to provision servers with those services
enabled on private networks occasionally).
Yes, I know it is 2020, and all about NTP and such... but I don't write
the firmware in those devices. If you haven't worked on service
provider stuff before... it is VERY slow to change.
I expect that the only way to make it work will be having an EL7 system til 2024 and then an eventual giant hardware firesale in 2030 or so. Daytime/time have only worked by the 'grace' of Fortuna since probably the late 1990's, and not tested except for those people who actually have to deal with said hardware since then. Eventually the technology hits a wall like it does every 5 to 10 years and a mass amount of stuff has to be 'retired'.. This usually happens after a crisis like a recession, a CFO/CIO retiring, or some set of sysadmins who kept it working are fully retired (aka it is now too expensive to pay for them being after-job consultants so their contracts are ended.)
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