[PLUG] xinetd v. inetd (was: starting a program at boot)

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

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?

Everyone else in the world still uses inetd. xinetd is, imho, just a
bad idea. The theory is that having a bunch of files, one for each
service, makes things easier to manage. It's not totally
off-the-wall thinking; it means that multiple sysadmins editing
inetd settings at the same time won't run into each other. But how
often does inetd *really* need to be edited?

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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