Re: 7.2

[Meph Istopheles <meph Aeon-AL Com>]

  Morning Rick,

> >   You know, I've known of the existence of inetd since RH 6.0
> > (maybe even when I ran 5.0), but just figured it was something
> > which did stuff in the background.  I'll be looking into it
> > more, now I see there's an update which is for 7.1.

> (x)inetd meant you ran a single daemon.  If it saw a connection
> being made on the port for rshd, it'd spawn rshd and hand it
> the socket as the spawned daemon's stdin and stdout.  This kept
> you from having a gazillion processes running that were, for
> the most part, scratching their fannies waiting for something
> to do.  Smaller memory footprint, smaller load on the CPU, and
> better control over what got run and when.  All in all, a "good
> thing."

  Yeah, I'm thinking it may be worth holding onto for a while
instead of just writing it off.  Though I'm still not convinced
rpms are a good thing, the docs make them sound pretty damn good
too.  We'll see.

  Thanks.

  Meph

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