[breezy] How to start / autostart leafnode?

[Derek Broughton]

David M wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote on 25/02/2006 12:47:52-0400
> 
>> if you have a backup of your actual leafnode data and filters.
> 
> Sadly, the Ubuntu installer point-blank *insisted* I nuke /var before
> letting me reinstall. :-(

I remember that. If you keep /var on a separate partition, then when you run
the installer you just completely ignore the partition, and later either
copy data from there to the new /var, or copy from the new /var over it and
re-add the partition to /etc/fstab.

> Oh well, at least (recent) news is easily recoverable..

> I see.. I didn't realise that leafnode required inetd. I'd have thought
> that it would automatically have installed it as a dependency if so..?

I should think inetd | xinetd is considered "core" and so not needed to
specify as a dependency.  iirc, Debian standards say not to depend on
anything in the debian-required packages.
> 
> Does it matter whether it's inetd or xinetd?
> Ubuntu seems to prefer xinetd as it's in main, whereas inetd
> (inetutils-inetd) is only in universe..

I doubt it matters - I've never used xinetd (only because the very first
Debian-based system I installed used inetd, and I've never had to pay much
attention to it since).  When I first installed hoary, I still ended up
with inetd.
-- 
derek