Where is xinetd in F8 ?

G.Wolfe Woodbury ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us
Mon Mar 31 14:15:10 UTC 2008


Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> What seems to have happened to xinetd in F8 ?  I have migrated a server
> from FC2 to F8 and most things went over fine, but we have one particular
> dedicated socket service that I can't get working.  It used to have its
> "config" file in /etc/xinetd.d and worked just fine, but I can't find
> xinetd on F8 - what is the equivalent ?
> 
> Jonathan
> 

Xinetd isn't installed by default unless you bring in a service that
requires it (like telnet-server).

All you need to do is (as root) is:

	yum install xinetd

and it will appear in its usual place.

-- 
Wolfe




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