ax25 Listen as a service

[Bill Vodall WA7NWP <wa7nwp@jnos.org>]

Attention deficit?  Easily distracted.  Couldn't be me....

While playing with the UroNode as a program launched from a socket, it 
dawned on me that it might be possible to do the very same with 
''listen.''  Often I SSH in to a remote system simply to watch the 
packet activity in the area.  I don't need the shell for that, just the 
listen.

So I gave it a try:

--- in /etc/services ---

   axlisten 3695/tcp  # Linux ax25 listening

--- in /etc/xinetd.conf I added ---

service axlisten
{
         socket_type     = stream
         protocol        = tcp
         wait            = no
         user            = root
         server          = /usr/bin/listen
         server_args     = -act
}

---

Then I sent a -HUP to xinetd and tried it.

   telnet localhost 3695

Wow?  I see packets scrolling by.  Pretty cool!

Now the question for the group.  Is there a better way to do this?  Is 
there anything inherently dangerous with doing this where I'm leaving 
the systems wide open to some exploit?

Thanks,
Bill - WA7NWP