ports/118537: minor doc-bug in net/rinetd
Dan Mahoney
danm at prime.gushi.org
Mon Dec 10 21:20:02 UTC 2007
>Number: 118537
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: minor doc-bug in net/rinetd
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Dec 10 21:20:01 UTC 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Dan Mahoney
>Release: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
Gushi Systems
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD prime.gushi.org 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Dec 20 05:43:31 EST 2006 danm at prime.gushi.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
In patching rinetd as part of ports, the default configuration file is changed from the "distributed" /etc/rinetd.conf to
the "portsified" /usr/local/etc/rinetd.conf
>How-To-Repeat:
Install /usr/ports/net/rinetd, man rinetd VERSUS strings /usr/local/sbin/rinetd|grep rinetd.conf
>Fix:
A small patch (not sure I did it right):
--- rinetd.8.orig Mon Apr 14 21:19:44 2003
+++ rinetd.8 Mon Dec 10 16:14:08 2007
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@
.Nd internet
.Dq redirection server
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm /usr/sbin/rinetd
+.Nm /usr/local/sbin/rinetd
.Sh VERSION
Version 0.62, 04/14/2003.
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm rinetd
redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another. rinetd
is a single-process server which handles any number of connections to
-the address/port pairs specified in the file /etc/rinetd.conf.
+the address/port pairs specified in the file /usr/local/etc/rinetd.conf.
Since rinetd runs as a single process using nonblocking I/O, it is
able to redirect a large number of connections without a severe
impact on the machine. This makes it practical to run TCP services
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
.Pp
rinetd is typically launched at boot time, using the following syntax:
.Pp
-/usr/sbin/rinetd
+/usr/local/sbin/rinetd
.Pp
-The configuration file is found in the file /etc/rinetd.conf, unless
+The configuration file is found in the file /usr/local/etc/rinetd.conf, unless
another file is specified using the -c command line option.
.Sh FORWARDING RULES
Most entries in the configuration file are forwarding rules. The
NOTE: I originally had emailed the ports author since I felt this was a small and not pr-worthy-fix, but I ran into an issue
whereby his mailer rejected my SPF because it didn't recognize the FreeBSD forwarder.
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