1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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3 | <sect2>
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4 | <title>Installation of Inetutils</title>
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5 |
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6 | <para>Prepare Inetutils for compilation:</para>
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7 |
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8 | <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-syslogd \
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9 | --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --disable-logger \
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10 | --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
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11 | --disable-whois --disable-servers
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12 | </userinput></screen></para>
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13 |
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14 | <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
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15 |
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16 | <itemizedlist>
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17 | <listitem><para><userinput>--disable-syslogd</userinput>: This option
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18 | prevents inetutils from installing the System Log Daemon, which is
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19 | installed with the Sysklogd package.</para></listitem>
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20 |
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21 | <listitem><para><userinput>--disable-logger</userinput>: This option
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22 | prevents inetutils from installing the logger program, which is used by
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23 | scripts to pass messages to the System Log Daemon. We do not install it
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24 | because Util-linux installs a better version later.</para></listitem>
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25 |
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26 | <listitem><para><userinput>--sysconfdir=/etc</userinput>: This option
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27 | tells the binaries created by the package to look in /etc for their
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28 | configuration files</para></listitem>
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29 |
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30 | <listitem><para><userinput>--disable-whois</userinput>: This option disables
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31 | the building of the inetutils whois client, which is woefully out of date.
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32 | Instructions for a better whois client are in the BLFS book.</para></listitem>
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33 |
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34 | <listitem><para><userinput>--disable-servers</userinput>: This disables the
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35 | compilation of the various server utilities included as part of the Inetutils
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36 | package. Many of these have known security vulnerabilities, and for most there
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37 | are better replacements.</para></listitem>
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38 | </itemizedlist>
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39 |
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40 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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41 |
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42 | <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
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43 |
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44 | <para>Install it:</para>
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45 |
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46 | <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
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47 |
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48 | <para>And move the <userinput>ping</userinput> program to its proper place:</para>
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49 |
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50 | <para><screen><userinput>mv /usr/bin/ping /bin</userinput></screen></para>
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51 |
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52 | </sect2>
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53 |
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