Re: inetd Enhancements

[john heasley <heas%shrubbery.net@localhost>]

Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 02:21:24PM -0500, Mouse:
> > [...], but I DO like that it eases and therefore promotes IaC,
> > programmatic configuration.
> 
> That's exactly what I don't like about it.  It leads, fairly directly,
> to admins who don't really understand their systems.  This is fine

I think that is categorically false.  The admin must know how it and the
orchestration system work in order to be wholly successful.

> (well, -ish) as long as all goes well, but it falls over
> catastrophically when things break.  Fujinaka-san concretized it well:
> 
> > WHICH ONE OF THESE *%*( FILES IS THE ONE I NEED TO EDIT TO GET SSH
> > WORKING AGAIN? ALL OF THEM? $*%)()!!!
> 
> This, of course, is not an issue if the admin really understands the
> setup - but it will, sooner or later, become an issue if not.

neither of you need to use it.

# cat <dir>/*.conf > <daemon>.conf; date 198601010000.00