xinetd - needed?

[Kevin Francis]

xinetd seems to run duplicates ... I already have all that stuff started
via init ... it's the same stuff i had in gentoo, and i nver used xinetd
there ...


On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 22:01, Alexandre de Abreu wrote:
> Mike Chambers wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 04:24, Kevin Francis wrote:
> > 
> >>I have xinetd loading on boot (runlevel 5).
> >>
> >>Do I really need this? I know that it's supposed to run services on
> >>demand, but I already have *all* services listed in /etc/xinetd.d/
> >>running on startup ...
> > 
> > 
> > I may be wrong, but services under xinetd can't run *unless* xinetd is
> > running.
> > 
> 
> That's right. Xinetd service must be started.
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Kevin G Francis
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