From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 27 11:39:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96DF237B417 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:39:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id LAA25521; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:39:08 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda25519; Thu Dec 27 11:39:06 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fBRJd0t64505; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:39:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(10.1.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdz64502; Thu Dec 27 11:38:08 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fBRJc8N35049; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:38:08 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200112271938.fBRJc8N35049@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdO35044; Thu Dec 27 11:37:51 2001 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: Matthias Andree Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcpd not installed on 4.5-PRERELEASE In-reply-to: Your message of "27 Dec 2001 20:30:49 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:37:51 -0800 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 In message , Matthias Andree writes: > 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. IMO, that's why we have the tcp_wrapper port. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Email: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD Ministry of Management Services Province of BC FreeBSD UNIX: cy@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message