From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 8 16:48:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5D8E37B479 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:48:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5431 invoked by uid 1003); 9 Nov 2000 00:48:37 -0000 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 02:48:37 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: mikel@upan.org Cc: Forrest Aldrich , Konstantin Chuguev , Chris Faulhaber , Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf Message-ID: <20001109024836.A99688@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20001106153332.00b2aad0@216.67.14.69> <20001107010203.A9348@hades.hell.gr> <20001106181838.A50442@peitho.fxp.org> <5.0.0.25.2.20001107091741.020ab5c0@216.67.14.69> <3A09636A.F81F0D28@ocsny.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A09636A.F81F0D28@ocsny.com>; from mikel@ocsny.com on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:30:02AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 2000-11-08 (09:30), Mikel wrote: > I've had been considering running xinted for some time now, and thanks to > Forest's suggestions I've been able to successfully get it up and running > smoothly. I am personnaly left wondering why not just replact inetd altogether > with this version? It certainly enhances security a bit. How does it enhance security? My main concern: (nbm@scythe) /usr/src/usr.sbin/inetd> find . -type f -name "*.c" | xargs wc -l | grep total 2933 total vs: (nbm@scythe) /home/nbm/security/xinetd-2.1.8.9pre10> find . -type f -name "*.c" | xargs wc -l | grep total 23149 total Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message