From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 21 11:54:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF17014F99; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:54:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 10w9Ck-0005yG-00; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:54:02 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Doug Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, alex@wnm.net Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf] In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:42:46 MST." Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:54:02 +0200 Message-ID: <22955.929991242@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:42:46 MST, Doug wrote: > [...] there is an outstanding PR that shows it > doesn't work for everybody, and there is absolutely no justification for > leaving an example in the conf file that conflicts with the man page. Doug, I'm annoyed that you ignored the most important part of my previous mail. What I quote you on having said above is not true There is no outstanding PR that shows anything at all on this issue. The PR you're talking about is 100% content-free. I'm particularly keen in seeing inetd as bug-free as possible, so I urge you _again_ to produce a meaningful "How-To-Repeat". > (No justification other than the ubiquitous, "We've always done it > that way.") This is an aside, but it's worth noting. A comment like that makes it sound like you underestimate the time a sysadmin saves by knowing "the way things have always been". In this particular case, note that both OpenBSD and NetBSD ship with an inetd.conf that uses the service name "ident" instead of "auth". Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message