Re: inetd Enhancements

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, Mouse wrote:

> > We are a team of senior CS students from Western Washington
> > University, and we are currently working a project to implement the
> > enhancements to inetd as described here:
>
> > https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/inetd-enhancements/
>
> > When it comes to adding per-service configuration files, our current
> > plan is to add a new configuration command, simlar to xinetd's
> > "includedir", that allows for specification of a per-service
> > configuration directory.
>
> Personally, I think this is a bad idea, most fundamentally because it
> enables, even encourages, administration without understanding.

I know the maintainer of xinetd, who has repeatedly tried to get rid of
it. I think doing anything like this is good for a project but I'd
rather not see it in NetBSD. But that's just me and I can adapt.

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