Inetd.conf and RH 7.0

[georgef at atg.com (George Flaherty)]

RH 7.0 now has xinetd. Xinetd allows more control and flexibility of your
services.
checkout http://www.xinetd.org for the core information, also
http://linuxfocus.org has
and excellent article on xinetd (Nov. issue).

-g

Chuck Young wrote:

> Speaking of inetd.conf, what happened to it in RH 7.0?
>
> find / -name "inetd.conf" -print yields zilch
>
> Admittedly, my free time is moving into negative numbers and I have not done
> much reading, but I can't figure out how to not run ftpd anymore...
>
> ----------------------
> Chuck Young
> ISE, New England Region
> Genuity, Inc.
> ----------------------
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-discuss at blu.org [mailto:owner-discuss at blu.org]On Behalf Of
> Sheldon Dubrowin
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 9:15 AM
> To: Phil Buckley
> Cc: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: Can't access remote machine anymore
>
> Maybe SSHD stopped running.  I was at SANS last week and they recomended
> running an SSHD on the "regular" port, port 22, but also putting SSHD in
> inetd.conf on some other port in case the "regular" SSHD fails, inetd.conf
> will start one up for you.  It is not usually run from inetd because it can
> take a few seconds to start the daemon and that is usually unacceptable, but
> in this type of emergency type case, where you would have to drive to the
> machine, it is better than nothing.  ;-)  Hope this helps you Phil.
>
>         Shel
>
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