inetd.conf missing?

Nitebirdz nitebirdz at sacredchaos.com
Thu Feb 23 14:56:11 UTC 2006


On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:47:51AM -0500, Mark Johanson wrote:
> Ok that makes sence, but as I understand inetd its the service
> that controls any network service (ie ssh). Now I can ssh to my
> box without any issues upon boot up. Where my confusion now
> comes into play is there is no inetd.conf to control these
> services and there was no xinted that I could find on the system
> either. Whats controling these services then if not inetd or
> xinted?
> 

There are two ways to run daemons in UNIX/Linux: as a standalone daemon
or from the super-daemon (i.e., inetd or xinetd).  The usual rule of
thumb is to run all daemons that you use heavily in standalone mode,
while the ones you don't use so often can be managed via superdaemon.  

In this case, the SSH daemon is started at boot time from the scripts
that you can find under the "/etc/init.d" directory, and therefore we
don't need any entry in the "/etc/inetd.conf" or "/etc/xinetd.d"
directory to start the service.  

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