Chris Beggy on Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:44:34 -0400


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


gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net> writes:

> 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?

I didn't like that my ipv6 implementation for linux required
xinetd.

Maybe that will change.

Chris

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