Hi guys,

Having used both inetd and xinetd, I much prefer xinetd because it's much
faster and the security can be more finely controlled. Perhaps this could be
a porting project for someone....

Cheers.

Mark Wilkinson.



"Jan Gerrit Kootstra" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:3B3C0AE9.EAACCE69@worldonline.nl...
> Gary,
>
>
> xinetd is not a copyright name change. xinetd means extended inetd, it has
some
> security extensions inetd has not. RedHat used to call the internet daemon
> inetd on the 6.2 release and older. On 7.0 it changed the name as a patch
was
> released.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Jan Gerrit Kootstra
>
>
> Gary Nolan wrote:
>
> > Just to second what James said. Setting up Linux is just that easy. My
new
> > job sent me on a quick Linux course a few weeks ago. We downloaded
RedHat.
> > Burned to cd, I think we used Nero to do this, remember that RedHat is
down
> > loaded in disk image. We then booted from the cd and away we go. Thanks
to
> > using Samba, ftp and Inetd on the 3000 all this stuff looked the same on
> > Linux, just the names have been changed ie Inetd is Xinetd this is done
for
> > copyright reasons. One thing that is neat in Linux is if you forget to
load
> > an option on the install it is real quick and easy to add in what you
missed
> > and in most cases you do not need to reboot to use it. I will get to
play
> > with Linux more in the future, it looks real interesting.
> >
> > Gary Nolan
> >
>
> - Snip -
>
>

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