Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:32:22 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: kam@salsolutions.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does it matter? Message-ID: <20010404153222.A17093@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <F47KLpgTFur2iz2Mb1s00000c8b@hotmail.com>; from netalchemist@hotmail.com on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:31:54PM -0000 References: <F47KLpgTFur2iz2Mb1s00000c8b@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:31:54PM -0000, Kam Salisbury wrote: > In the continuing saga of my installing FreeBSD on my box for a home network > server... > > I noticed that Samba (smbd and nmbd) are not being managed by inetd. Is this > a problem? Does it matter that they start and move to the background (daemon > process) via /usr/local/etc/rc.d shell script? > > Kam. As it were, I use inetd to spawn Samba and Apache. The reason is quite simple... while maybe a bit more inefficient (as another reply suggests), I simply do not get enough http hits or SMB traffic to justify keeping a daemon running full-time. Occassionally my brother will hijack my MP3 directory from Windows, and I use Apache to share files on IRC (my firewall prevents DCC sending from my machine), but for the most part, traffic is minimal. This way, I keep my memory and processor usage low when not in use, and pay a small tax when I want to use Apache and Samba. This is clearly a matter of preference. OpenSSH, on the other hand, is not started from inetd. This is because I use SSH on my box all the time, and it is pointed out in the docs that each time an sshd process is spawned, it needs to create a session key, which takes time. Therefore, I leave sshd running all the time, so that I can SSH to my box (as I am right now) without penalty. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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