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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 :-)

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