Bug 1220

Summary:	server attribute should not be necessary if redirect is present
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	imz <vanyaz>
Component:	xinetd	Assignee:	placeholder <placeholder>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	glebfm, imz, ldv, placeholder, vt
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description imz 2002-08-24 20:17:09 MSD

The man-page for xinetd.conf says \'server\' attribute is always necessary for a service. But if \'redirect\' is specified, then \'server\' is absolutely useless.

The behaviour of xinetd corresponds to what is written: it doesn\'t accept a service with \'redirect\' attribute and without a \'server\' attribute. If I add a \'service\' attribute with some value, it accepts the service. (It would be reasonable if it accepted such a service even without a useless \'server\' attribute.)

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xinetd-2.3.6-alt2

Some previous version used to behave the way I\'d prefer.

Comment 1 Dmitry V. Levin 2002-09-02 12:36:56 MSD

I\'m not sure - the \'server\' attribute is used in libwrap checks,
so it is not absolutely useless.

Comment 2 Dmitry V. Levin 2002-09-02 12:36:56 MSD

I\'m not sure - the \'server\' attribute is used in libwrap checks,
so it is not absolutely useless.

Comment 3 Dmitry Lebkov 2002-09-02 19:44:17 MSD

Just comment: \'server\' is mean process name in the list of running processes (ps ax|grep name) isn\'t it? \'redirect\' service can be controlled by \'only from\' clause of xinetd.conf

edited on: 02-09 19:45

Comment 4 Dmitry Lebkov 2002-09-02 19:44:17 MSD

Just comment: \'server\' is mean process name in the list of running processes (ps ax|grep name) isn\'t it? \'redirect\' service can be controlled by \'only from\' clause of xinetd.conf

edited on: 02-09 19:45

Comment 5 Dmitry V. Levin 2002-09-02 20:28:51 MSD

No, server means program to execute for this service.
This attribute also used as service name in tcp_wrappers check.

Comment 6 Dmitry V. Levin 2002-09-02 20:28:51 MSD

No, server means program to execute for this service.
This attribute also used as service name in tcp_wrappers check.

Comment 7 Dmitry V. Levin 2002-09-09 21:05:47 MSD

Please have a look at xinetd-2.3.8-alt1

Comment 8 Dmitry V. Levin 2002-09-09 21:05:47 MSD

Please have a look at xinetd-2.3.8-alt1

Comment 9 Dmitry V. Levin 2005-01-22 13:31:18 MSK

No comments -> fixed.

Comment 10 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-09-18 18:22:56 MSD

(In reply to comment #9)
> No comments -> fixed.

Yes, it's OK in xinetd-2.3.13-alt1. Thanks!