Re: inetd Enhancements

2020-11-22 Thread Mouse
>>> WHICH ONE OF THESE *%*( FILES IS THE ONE I NEED TO EDIT TO GET SSH >>> WORKING AGAIN? ALL OF THEM? $*%)()!!! >> This, of course, is not an issue if the admin really understands the >> setup - but it will, sooner or later, become an issue if not. > neither of you need to use it. That could be s

Re: inetd Enhancements

2020-11-22 Thread john heasley
Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 02:21:24PM -0500, Mouse: > > [...], but I DO like that it eases and therefore promotes IaC, > > programmatic configuration. > > That's exactly what I don't like about it. It leads, fairly directly, > to admins who don't really understand their systems. This is fine I think

Re: inetd Enhancements

2020-11-22 Thread Mouse
> I am sympathetic, but a directory of fragments is very thin syntactic > sugar over having it all in a file. True...and false. It's not all that thin, because... > It does mean that "update this file if it hasn't changed" is likely > to work on each fragment, rather than failing on something wh

Re: inetd Enhancements

2020-11-22 Thread Greg Troxel
Mouse writes: > Of course, any setup can ultimately be understood. But the more > complexity there is, the harder that is to do; and the more automation > is provided by someone else, the more it encourages administration > without understanding - in extreme cases it actively obstructs > admini

Re: inetd Enhancements

2020-11-22 Thread Mouse
> [...], but I DO like that it eases and therefore promotes IaC, > programmatic configuration. That's exactly what I don't like about it. It leads, fairly directly, to admins who don't really understand their systems. This is fine (well, -ish) as long as all goes well, but it falls over catastro

Re: inetd Enhancements

2020-11-22 Thread john heasley
Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 09:00:30AM -0800, Hisashi T Fujinaka: > Oh yeah, this is great. I forsee in my future: > > WHICH ONE OF THESE *%*( FILES IS THE ONE I NEED TO EDIT TO GET SSH > WORKING AGAIN? ALL OF THEM? $*%)()!!! That is matter of self-control and planning. Perhaps the more organized perso

Re: inetd Enhancements

2020-11-22 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, john heasley wrote: Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 08:08:56AM -, Michael van Elst: mo...@rodents-montreal.org (Mouse) writes: https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/inetd-enhancements/ When it comes to adding per-service configuration files, our current plan is to add a ne

Re: inetd Enhancements

2020-11-22 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, Mouse wrote: We are a team of senior CS students from Western Washington University, and we are currently working a project to implement the enhancements to inetd as described here: https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/inetd-enhancements/ When it comes to adding pe

Re: inetd Enhancements

2020-11-22 Thread john heasley
Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 08:08:56AM -, Michael van Elst: > mo...@rodents-montreal.org (Mouse) writes: > > >> https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/inetd-enhancements/ > > >> When it comes to adding per-service configuration files, our current > >> plan is to add a new configuration command, si

Re: inetd Enhancements

2020-11-22 Thread Greg Troxel
Keep in mind as you consider "changing" rather than "extending" that there are many systems with existing files, and the NetBSD way is that if you upgrade the system to a new version, then as little breakage as possible should ensue. Yes, technically you should read all the release notes, and you

Re: inetd Enhancements

2020-11-22 Thread Paul Goyette
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, Mouse wrote: I think that would be another disaster. I would look for a design that supports the flexibility without invalidating old files and without so much fluff, or at least without *requiring* so much fluff. Changing the file format also concerns me. It is entire

inetd Enhancements

2020-11-22 Thread James Browning
Hello NetBSD Community, We are a team of senior CS students from Western Washington University, and we are currently working a project to implement the enhancements to inetd as described here: https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/inetd-enhancements/ We are sending this email for two purpose

Re: inetd Enhancements

2020-11-22 Thread Michael van Elst
mo...@rodents-montreal.org (Mouse) writes: >> https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/inetd-enhancements/ >> When it comes to adding per-service configuration files, our current >> plan is to add a new configuration command, simlar to xinetd's >> "includedir", that allows for specification of a