[Gllug] Open Ports

[Matthew Kirkwood]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> > >        disable         = yes
>
> > Bleugh! Sorry, pet hate of mine. Config files should never contain
> > negative options. This should be "enable = no". Poor interface design.
>
> I see no logical reason for this.  The normal reason to write up a
> service in xinetd.conf is to enable it - to disable it simply don't
> include it.  The default is for a service to be enabled, so it makes
> sense to add a disable line for the exceptions rather than having to
> add an enable line to all the others.

This doesn't follow; it's entirely possible for "enable" to
be optional and to default to "yes".

Matthew.


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