At 10:44 AM 3/27/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Scrap telnet for ssh. Scrap ftpd for ssh (authenticated) and/or
>publicfile (anonymous).
telnet or ftpd is not the main issue, starting any system services through
tcpserver is the point.
(Using tcpserver.conf)
>What's tcpserver.conf?
It is a file like inetd.conf. May be you are familiar with writing long
tcpserver commands
to monitor the port and corresponding services to start, upon incoming request,
in some startup file like rc.conf, or through rc.d/init.d directory ---
Also it starts multiple instances of tcpserver for each port / service to
monitor.
Compare with inetd.conf ----
Where just a single entry suffices.
tcpserver.conf gives you the best of both worlds.
The ease of configuration of inetd & speed (sustaining quite high no of
connections),
& security (tunable through .cdb files).
See attachment for tcpserver.conf
See also the man O/P (use more or less pager for proper viewing).
>What's tcpserver-control?
This is an added goodie of the bunch. It Actually parses the tcpserver.conf
& with a help of daemon-tools starts tcpserver to monitor the ports
given in tcpserver.conf (like inetd.conf)
(Thats What I Think, How ? I still have to figure out, that's the reason
for my first mail !!)
All Options that can be given to tcpserver can be given in tcpserver.conf
(Looks like It)
And in a more structured & manageable way.
It also allows to start / stop & status monitoring of the services handled
by tcpserver.
See tcpserver-control man page. (use more or less pager to view correctly)
Regards
Mustafa M
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tcpserver.conf
man.tcpserver-control
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