Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:37:51 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcpd not installed on 4.5-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <200112271938.fBRJc8N35049@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "27 Dec 2001 20:30:49 %2B0100." <m3ellg795i.fsf@emma1.emma.line.org>
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In message <m3ellg795i.fsf@emma1.emma.line.org>, Matthias Andree writes:
> 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.
IMO, that's why we have the tcp_wrapper port.
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