Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 24, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, you have proposed that all superserver packages provide their own > update-inetd implementation, which is fine and simple enough, except that > it's not clear how the configuration would be transferred when one > superserver is rep

Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps not, but the possibility to just drop a configuration snippet in > a ".d" directory, instead of having to mess with a single configuration > file, is appealing IMHO. Russ: May I ask why you don't like xinetd? A bad taste left over from Red Hat

Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-24 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 23 July 2007 18:47, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 23, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Packages containing servers that can be started from inetd should all > > provide an xinetd configuration file in /etc/xinetd.d. They will > > instantly work with > > Way too much work, and

Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 05:45:31PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > A legitimate question is whether the xinetd configuration format is a good > format. Are there, or will there be, even more "extended" inetd:s? apt-cache search shows at least: inetutils-inetd - Internet super server micro-inet

Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> However, even more importantly than the discussion of possible solutions, > we need an implementation. If you have a solution, please *implement* it > (and in a way that doesn't make large parts of Debian buggy, which means > being backwardly compatible) and I bet you'll be able to build a cons

Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 23, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Packages containing servers that can be started from inetd should all provide > an xinetd configuration file in /etc/xinetd.d. They will instantly work with Way too much work, and "better support for xinetd" is not something important enoug

Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Boy, what an old bug! > This has been discussed some times[1], but no conclusion reached. I'd > like to suggest (again, probably) the following: As near as I can tell, the reason why no conclusion has been reached is because no one has written the co

Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-23 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Boy, what an old bug! This has been discussed some times[1], but no conclusion reached. I'd like to suggest (again, probably) the following: Packages containing servers that can be started from inetd should all provide an xinetd configuration file in /etc/xinetd.d. They will instantly work with