25 Jan
2006
25 Jan
'06
3:15 a.m.
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.