[ On Monday, February 24, 2003 at 12:37:47 (-0500), Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: tcpserver
>
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 at 11:50am, Casey Shobe wrote
> 
> > Is there any way to make amanda work in standalone mode or with tcpserver?
> > I really do not want to have to install inetd...
> > 
> xinetd works quite well

Perhaps for some folks, but certianly not for all!

Note also that for all intents and proposes xinetd is an inetd.

> and is much more secure than inetd.

I seriously doubt that.  In fact I believe there's ample proof to the
contrary with several security advisories against xinetd and none that
I'm aware of against at least the *BSD inetds.

Also note that most (all?) of the *BSD inetds include integrated hooks
to TCP Wrappers.

Finally note that Amanda doesn't just use TCP -- it also uses UDP and
you really can't use libwrap effectively on most UDP services.

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