Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 11:27:46 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@nwu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inetd question Message-ID: <20000610112746.A24409@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000609150103.23491A-100000@iceberg.web-walrus.com>; from root@web-walrus.com on Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 03:04:37PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000609150103.23491A-100000@iceberg.web-walrus.com>
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 03:04:37PM -0500, Grandpa Walrus wrote: > Many services on BSD systems can be run as either standalone, or from > inetd. Is there a benefit to one way or the other? Are there limitations > of either method? ---end quoted text--- I'm no expert, but here's an example: sendmail. Under normal circumstances, this is run in daemon mode, but could very well, I assume, run through a call by inetd. But for heavy sendmail use, it makes more sense to run it in daemon mode. Otherwise, for every time sendmail needs to run, inetd will have to call sendmail. Seems more like an issue of overhead here. -- David Kanter djkanter@nwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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