Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 19:42:10 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Brian Clapper <bmc@telebase.com> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Chuck Murcko <chuck@telebase.com> Subject: Re: tripwire, xinetd (or tcp wrappers) Message-ID: <199602131742.TAA02061@grumble.grondar.za>
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Brian Clapper wrote: > Mark> Neither have been ported to FreeBSD. Tripwire is available from cert > Mark> (ftp.cert.org) and xinetd is a bunch sharfiles + later patches > Mark> available from ftp.uu.net and mirrors in (something like) > Mark> usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume??/xinetd/part* and > Mark> usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume??/xinetd/patch* > Mark> I seem to remember that there are a couple of patches in different > Mark> volumes spread over a bit of time. > > `xinetd' *has* been ported to FreeBSD, by Chuck Murcko (chuck@telebase.com). > Check out ftp://ftp.telebase.com/pub/security/xinetd.2.1.7-freebsd.4.tar.gz I stand corrected. Perhaps this could be submitted to us as a port? > I'm using it on a FreeBSD box, as is Chuck. We use it here on a variety of > platforms to which it was not originally ported by its author, Panos > Tsirigotis. Ports please, gentlemen! > >> Is xinetd faster (suffering from less process start latency) > >> than tcpd? > > Mark> Fractionally. Probably not even so you'd notice. > > IMO, xinetd's somewhat simpler to use than the inetd/tcp-wrappers > combination. Somewhat, yes. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key
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