Re: [PLUG] starting a program at boot

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:04:58AM -0400, epike@isinet.com wrote:
> Offtopic, whatever happened to /etc/inetd.conf which redhat
> replaced with the /etc/xinetd.d/ directory, what does the other
> distros use?  Which one is more correct?

RedHat uses xinetd instead of inetd.  xinetd uses /etc/xinetd.conf
instead of /etc/inetd.conf.  In xinetd.conf, the /etc/xinetd.d/
directory is included.  The net effect is that now instead of editing
one (larger) file, you get to edit a bunch of (tiny) files. ;-)

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