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Date:      27 Dec 2001 20:30:49 +0100
From:      Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcpd not installed on 4.5-PRERELEASE
Message-ID:  <m3ellg795i.fsf@emma1.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <200112271848.fBRImuO34602@cwsys.cwsent.com>
References:  <200112271848.fBRImuO34602@cwsys.cwsent.com>

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Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> writes:

> In message <m3zo448q1s.fsf@emma1.emma.line.org>, Matthias Andree writes:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I just cleandir'ed out my whole /usr/obj/src and rebuilt the world
> > (4.5-PRERELEASE), installed it, and figured that tcpd seems to be
> > missing from the install, while tcpdchk and tcpdmatch are
> > installed. What's up here? Did I do something wrong? Is this worth a
> > send-pr? Or is tcpd just not part of the system?
> 
> Tcpd is redundant under FreeBSD.  FreeBSD's inetd uses libwrap 
> (TCP/Wrapper library), effectively wrapping as if tcpd was in use.

No, it is not redundant.

I might have a different super-server than FreeBSD's inetd (tcpserver
from DJB's ucspi-tcp!), or I might want to run a service without libwrap
for efficiency reasons -- in that case, I'd have to run tcpd explicitly
for the other services.

-- 
Matthias Andree

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."         Benjamin Franklin

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