Different inetds under Debian

[Tom Buskey]

I usually have inetd disabled.

ssh, nfs, samba, ntp and httpd don't need it.  rdate function might be the
only thing I'd want.

On 10/10/07, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> Is anyone here familiar with the differences between the different
> inetd packages under Debian?  I've inherited a system which currently
> has openbsd-inetd installed.  This is but one of many, many
> differences between this machine and everything else in our network.
> Everything else uses netkit-inetd.
>
> The problem I'm trying to track down has to do with something which is
> invoked via inetd, and I've discovered this particular difference.
> I'm not convinced it *is* the problem, but I'm not convinced it's not
> either.
>
> According to apt, openbsd-inetd is:
>
>    a port of the OpenBSD daemon with some debian-specific features.
>    This package does not have many bugs of netkit-inetd.
>
> It's phrase "debian-specific features" and "many of the bugs of
> netkit-inetd" I'm kinda focused on here :)
>
> For all I know, I've been relying upon one of those many bugs in
> netkit-inetd for quite a while, or, some new debian-specific feature
> is now causing me problems!
>
> --
> Seeya,
> Paul
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