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README.Debian for xinetd
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xinetd in debian is supposed to work with -inetd_compat enabled (you can
tweak that in /etc/default/xinetd).
Package maintainers that support xinetd in addition to xinetd, will drop
files in /etc/xinetd.d/<service> _and_ add entries in /etc/inetd.conf,
enabling them using update-inetd.
If both an xinetd service configuration id and an entry in /etc/inetd.conf
match, the xinetd one will hide the inetd.conf one, even if disabled. This
trick is built to simplify the logic in update-inetd, and let the
administrators only touch xinetd configuration and don't have
/etc/inetd.conf mess with that they changed behind their back.
-- Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:55:48 +0100