Re: GEP 3 - Remote activation in bonobo-activation

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> > to talk to remote hosts. The default high and medium firewall settings
> > block incoming connections to server ports.
> 
> Right, but they still have xinetd/inetd. If its blocking ports it
> doesn't really matter a lick whether we use inetd or not! This is all
> orthogonal to the choice to use inetd AFAICT. But I am out of my domain
> of knowledge so I'll shut my trap :-)

I think at the moment its probably safe to assume most people have xinetd.
In the RH case its sucked in by fam and cups, but not much else