pros/cons of running services from inetd vs standalone daemons

[Jason Clinton]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 20:54 -0600, hanasaki wrote:
> 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.

You wouldn't want to use xinetd/inetd for anything getting frequent
requests. You can use tcpwrapper's /etc/hosts.allow and host.deny to add
security that a service might not otherwise provide. But really, you can
do that with a firewall, too.
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