inetd vs standalone daemon

[cpghost at cordula.ws]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 07:46:09PM +0200, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> Can i delete inetd ?

Why would you want to? Just don't enable it from /etc/rc.conf
and you'll be fine. If you need it, you can always enable it
later. Many machines run just fine without inetd. It all depends
what you wanna do.

> I vote we get rid of inetd :)

No. With inetd, you can also turn regular filters into network
aware programs (sort of). And not every network service is always
needed all the time. Having a deamon for each of those seldom used
services hanging around is just wastful.

-cpghost.

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