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>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?m3ellg795i.fsf>