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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> writes:

    >> And then we could telinit -on sshd telinit -off sshd

    Peter> This looks nice.  The major problem I see is coming up with
    Peter> a secure mechanism for passing the daemon name from telinit
    Peter> to init.

Named sockets work well for this sort of control channel.

--lyndon


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