> I have just installed a copy of Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) and noticed that
> although
> inet.d was installed along with hosts.allow and hosts.deny files the
> inet.d
> configuration file was completely empty. It doesn't appear that any
> services
> installed are run through inet.d.
>> So - if its not used, why is it installed?
>> Should I just dump it and rely on iptables to secure outside access to
> services?
>> Is the server installation configured any differently wrt inet.d?
>
Interestingly enough, it looks like the next release of Ubuntu (Edgy Efy)
won't support inetd at all. Instead they plan to use a replacement called
Upstart. Can read all about it here:
http://www.netsplit.com/blog/work/canonical/upstart.html
cheers
Robert
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