From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 27 19:26:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.erols.com (smtp3.erols.com [207.172.3.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 262E0152B5 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 19:26:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (207-172-143-251.s60.as3.hgt.md.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.143.251]) by smtp3.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA09596; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 22:26:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199906280226.WAA09596@smtp3.erols.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199906251244.FAA30357@sigma.veritas.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 22:26:34 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Aaron Smith Subject: Re: Inetd and wrapping. Cc: Doug , David Malone , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Jun-99 Aaron Smith wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:14:48 +0200, Sheldon Hearn writes: >>I think I prefer the suggestion I saw from someone else, which would >>allow >> >>ftp stream tcp nowait/10/10/wrap root ... >> >>This can be done in such a way as to be backward compatible. Looks like >>something for the week-end, if I can convince my wife that it's a good >>idea. :-) > > could you please restate the argument for this? i still haven't heard a > decent reason for this sort of conf format perturbation. every small whack > like this makes freebsd weirder to administrate -- there is a value to > sharing the same inetd.conf format with lots of other platforms. > > if people have their undies in a wad over this, can't they compile inetd > without LIBWRAP? Ahem.. Let's say I have two services, foo and bar, with food and bard. I want to wrap food, but *NOT* bard and they are both in /etc/inetd.conf. How do you propose to solve this with the internal wrapping (which is a good idea, IMO as it eliminates an exec())? > aaron --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message