[ale] RH 7.1 configuration

[greg at turnstep.com]

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> Between 6.x and 7.x, Redhat depreciated inetd and went with
> xinetd.  xinetd.conf is the base configuration file, which in
> turn points to the xinetd.d directory.  Each service now has
> an individual configuration file as opposed to the one line
> entried in inetd.conf.  I don't know about docs, but the
> files themselves are pretty straightforward to read. 

You can still stick things in the xinetd.conf file as well if 
you wish. Xinetd is much better than inetd: don't 
use the latter anymore if you can help it.

Another alternative to inetd is ucspi-tcp, which has 
an extremely ugly name but works pretty well. I've 
used both and don't recommend one over another, 
but I'd point new people to ucspi-tcp since it is 
more powerful, and people familiar with inetd to 
xinetd because, well, it's familiar. :)

Docs on both:

Xinetd:
http://www.xinetd.org

ucspi-tcp:
http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html

Greg Sabino Mullane
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