From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 27 11:31:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from krusty.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E164437B417 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:30:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from emma1.emma.line.org (krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.1]) by krusty.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CC1CA3826 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:30:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by emma1.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 3A9D0A2003; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:30:50 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcpd not installed on 4.5-PRERELEASE References: <200112271848.fBRImuO34602@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: <200112271848.fBRImuO34602@cwsys.cwsent.com> From: Matthias Andree Date: 27 Dec 2001 20:30:49 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group writes: > In message , 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