tcpwrapper and xinetd

From: Rajarshi Guha (rajarshi@presidency.com)
Date: 08/16/01 

Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:54:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rajarshi Guha <rajarshi@presidency.com>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.org
Subject: tcpwrapper and xinetd
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108161452570.7017-100000@seed.chem.psu.edu>

Hi,
  I had been using inetd previously, but now that I'm on RedHat 7.0 I'm
using xinetd. Does tcp_wrappers play a role with xinetd? The files
/etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny exist but are they used?

Any advice would be appreciated.
TIA,

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