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Re: xinetd

Subject: Re: xinetd
From: "John D. Coleman"
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 00:12:10 -0400
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking
On Thu, 12 May 2005 21:43:38 +0000, Sigrid Thijs wrote:

> On Wed, 11 May 2005 07:13:03 +0000, Buzzbomb wrote:
> 
> 
>> xinetd is more about starting "one-shot" services on demand rather than
>> starting up a permanent daemon.
>> 
>> If you want to start a continuously listening daemon, start it from the
>> rc scripts.
>  
> That's what I thought so. It would have been nice if it was possible to
> delay the startup of the service until it was necessary.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Sigrid
How about having xinetd execute a script that then executes that permanent
daemon? The script would die but if the daemon kept working. Maybe ?

I can't get openSSH to work for the same reason and I would like CUPS to
work the same way : Rarely needed so don't have them running until they
are needed.


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