Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 16:36:07 +0200 From: Daniel Blankensteiner <db@traceroute.dk> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting and inetd Message-ID: <20020414143553.YWDI22769.fepC.post.tele.dk@there> In-Reply-To: <20020414141130.GA21469@student.uu.se> References: <000b01c1e3b2$40db6b10$6800a8c0@rafter> <20020414141130.GA21469@student.uu.se>
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On Sunday 14 April 2002 16:11, Erik Trulsson wrote: > You seem to have misunderstood how inetd works. > /etc/inetd.conf determines what ports inetd will listen on. > When there is an incoming connection on one of the ports inetd listens > on it will start a new process to handle that connection. > Inetd does not start any processes at boot time, but only when there is > an incoming connection. > > > Some services are not handled by inetd but instead by their own daemons > who listen for incoming connections themselves. > Sshd is one such program, and I believe sendmail is another. > These are not affected by any changes you make to /etc/inetd.conf > > These daemons are usually started through one of the rc* files. > (Startup behaviour is normally determined by a xxx_enable variable in > /etc/rc.conf for daemons that are part of the base system, or by a > script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for programs installed through > ports/packages.) Ok, is there any difference in starting (fx) sshd at boot time (or manually) than with inetd? I heard (in here?), that sshd performes better by itself, than via inetd. br db ps: A thank you to all of you who wrote back :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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