On November 9, 2001 12:35 am, Martijn Tonies wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I believe (but I'm not really into Linux) that xinetd.conf is the newer
> version of inetd.conf - they behave the same.

They serve the same roles but configuration is different. With inetd it was
all in one file (/etc/inetd.conf) which made it hard for install scripts to
add their configuration and then remove it when uninstalled. The xinetd
configuration is stored in a diectory (/etc/xinetd.d) and the config info for
each server is a separate config file. So installing and removing a service
is just a matter of copying in a file or removing it (and tweaking the xinetd
daemon to let it know there is a new config file).

--
Brad Pepers
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