From owner-freebsd-security Wed Aug 15 10:56:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B49137B403; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:56:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7FHupj32671; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:56:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:56:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200108151756.f7FHupj32671@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Robert Watson Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf In-Reply-To: References: <006601c125b0$625d7b90$28d90c42@eservoffice.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > I agree with your thoughts on a menu-driven editor, but doing that > properly relies on having a machine-parsable file format that supports > in-band disabling of services. This is the sort of thing that XML would be good for, if only there were a tolerable XML-parsing library. (Actually, almost any structured format would be better than the current mess that is inetd.conf.) That would also make it easier for packages to auto-configure their inetd.conf entries. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message