On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:58:04AM -0400, 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. > > But, as noted, if Amanda was not selected at install time, like telnet > server, etc., Anaconda would not have grabbed xinetd for installation. The amanda package requires xinetd: $ repoquery --requires amanda.i586 | grep xinetd xinetd -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
