Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:51:54 +0200 From: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> To: Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inetd vs standalone daemon Message-ID: <ef60af0905032711516d992de2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20050327142159.03cc89f0@mail.face2interface.com> References: <ef60af0905032709464d9d12c3@mail.gmail.com> <20050327190511.GB15898@fw.farid-hajji.net> <6.2.0.14.0.20050327142159.03cc89f0@mail.face2interface.com>
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On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:05:11 +0200, cpghost@cordula.ws <cpghost@cordula.ws> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 07:46:09PM +0200, Gert Cuykens wrote: > > Can i delete inetd ? > > Why would you want to? Just don't enable it from /etc/rc.conf > and you'll be fine. If you need it, you can always enable it > later. Many machines run just fine without inetd. It all depends > what you wanna do. > > > I vote we get rid of inetd :) > > No. With inetd, you can also turn regular filters into network > aware programs (sort of). And not every network service is always > needed all the time. Having a deamon for each of those seldom used > services hanging around is just wastful. i think its less wasteful cpu time to run separate daemons then to run 1 big daemon. Because the big daemon needs to find out which service it needs to start every time a fedex guy is knocking at the door while a separate daemon already knows what it needs to do before the fedex guy is standing at the door.
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