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> Is debian using /etc/inetd.conf (for tcp wrappers) or is it only
> RedHat who uses an /etc/xinetd.d/ directory? I was confused by that
> change when it was introduced in rh 7.0.
>
> Been thinking of switching to debian but never got around to it (yet).
Debian will use either.
I installed potato so this will install /etc/inetd.conf. If you install
xinetd.d, it will remove /etc/inetd.conf. But you have to manually convert
/etc/inetd.conf lines to xinetd.d files. Also, you should add the line
includedir /etc/xinetd.d
to your /etc/xinetd.conf file. Debian doesn't do this, either, IIRC.
I'm not sure whether this behavior was fixed in the woody installer or
they stuck with inetd.d.
inetd.d works fine. I changed to xinetd in order
to support an app which installs by default on rh (incidentally, I had to
add inetd support back in order to support older vers of sun).
Can someone explain why xinetd is better? I think it is b/c you can drop
config files into a dir which is easier to program for than editing a
monolithic file, but there must be better reasons.
I think the other writer meant to ask why linux is being standardized on
.rpms rather than .debs (dpkg). apt is only a front end and it now
supports rpms. It works fine, but there aren't enough mirrors yet.
Debian has supported rpms for quite a while via alien and it even will
install rpm for your:
apt-get install rpm :)
I usually use alien to convert rpms to debs b/c I want to keep apt aware
of all the packages to install. Mixing formats sounds like a recipe for
disaster. Yet, I think that using rpm to install commercial apps probably
isn't so dangerous on debian as most are statically linked, and most don't
enter the dependency food chain.
Fred
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