pros/cons of running services from inetd vs standalone daemons

hanasaki hanasaki at hanaden.com
Tue Jan 24 20:54:43 CST 2006


Any opinions on the reasons to run services from inetd vs leaving them
running as daemons?

The main thing that comes to mind is for busy services like an MTA/email
or Samba there is less overhead because there aren't alot of processes
being spawned / forked.


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