Question about whehter xinetd is still used.

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/26/2009 07:47 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Markku Kolkka wrote:
>> A program that can run either as a stand-alone daemon or under
>> xinetd doesn't _require_ xinetd.
> 
> Sure.  But some of the packages are being setup to xinetd by default,
> and it can be a pain to find that you install it and it does not work
> by default.
> 
> Take git-daemon for example, we don't ship an init script with it, we
> ship an xinetd configuration.  But since git-daemon does not require
> xinetd, you can easily find that git-daemon doesn't run after
> downloading it and using chkconfig git on to try and get it working.

You should file bug reports if that's the case.

Rahul