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Date:      Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:54:02 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Doug <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, alex@wnm.net
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf] 
Message-ID:  <22955.929991242@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:42:46 MST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906211134240.15079-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com> 

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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:42:46 MST, Doug wrote:

> [...] there is an outstanding PR that shows it
> doesn't work for everybody, and there is absolutely no justification for
> leaving an example in the conf file that conflicts with the man page.

Doug, I'm annoyed that you ignored the most important part of my
previous mail. What I quote you on having said above is not true There
is no outstanding PR that shows anything at all on this issue. The PR
you're talking about is 100% content-free.

I'm particularly keen in seeing inetd as bug-free as possible, so I urge
you _again_ to produce a meaningful "How-To-Repeat".

> (No justification other than the ubiquitous, "We've always done it
> that way.")

This is an aside, but it's worth noting. A comment like that makes it
sound like you underestimate the time a sysadmin saves by knowing "the
way things have always been".

In this particular case, note that both OpenBSD and NetBSD ship with an
inetd.conf that uses the service name "ident" instead of "auth".

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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