From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 7 1:31:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.dante.org.uk (alpha.dante.org.uk [193.63.211.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1557237B4C5 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 01:31:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from theta.dante.org.uk ([193.63.211.7]) by alpha.dante.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #4) id 13t55d-0005kR-00; Tue, 07 Nov 2000 09:30:49 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dante.org.uk) by theta.dante.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #4) id 13t55d-0005aE-00; Tue, 07 Nov 2000 09:30:49 +0000 Message-ID: <3A07CBC8.3A4A9E2D@dante.org.uk> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 09:30:48 +0000 From: Konstantin Chuguev Organization: Delivery of Advanced Networking Service to Europe Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Faulhaber Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf References: <5.0.0.25.2.20001106153332.00b2aad0@216.67.14.69> <20001107010203.A9348@hades.hell.gr> <20001106181838.A50442@peitho.fxp.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Faulhaber wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:02:03AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:37:01PM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > > It would be useful to have back the program specification variable for > > > inetd. Currently we have: > > > > > > inetd_enable="YES" # Run the network daemon dispatcher (or NO). > > > inetd_flags="-wW" # Optional flags to inetd > > > > > > and the /etc/rc.* files assume the use of the stock inetd. Where some > > > people choose to use alternative inetd-like programs such as xinetd. > > [...] > > > > Nice idea! And the fix is simple. The included patch will correct it :-) > > > > You forgot the patch(es) to the port(s) this would affect (e.g. xinetd). > The affected ports would need their ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d files removed > (otherwise you would start them twice) along with a message letting the > installer know how to start it properly. > If xinetd has a startup script, why don't you just set inetd_enable="NO" and let the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/xinetd.sh start normally? You need to edit no /etc/rc.* files (except for rc.conf.local, obviously). -- * * Konstantin Chuguev - Application Engineer * * Francis House, 112 Hills Road * Cambridge CB2 1PQ, United Kingdom D A N T E WWW: http://www.dante.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message