On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:36:23AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> xinetd isn't a pos, its quite a bit more secure, and less wastefull of 
> system resources than inetd because things don't get started at boot 
> time and left around in case they are needed, they are started on 
> demand, and killed when the demand is gone.  Its also had a couple of 
> security related updates fairly recently and the version I have 
> installed is now 2.3.11 IIRC.  If yours is older, I'd get the latest 
> before I re-installed it.

Actually, Gene, I'd have to take issue with this.  xinetd does not leave
any fewer processes "hanging around" than inetd does.  In fact, they are
functionally equivalent pieces of software.  The primary difference
between the two is that xinetd wastes inodes on your filesystem.  =)

> There has to be some reason the services won't start, so please post 
> an 'ls -l' of the /usr/local/libexec directory.  Also an 'ls -l' of 
> the amanda src directory, and a 'cat' of your configuration script.

Since amanda works properly for Mike under inetd and not under xinetd I
would suspect a problem with his xinetd build.  My question to Mike is,
if it works under inetd, why are you bothering with the PITA that is
xinetd?  ;-)

Brandon D. Valentine
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Systems Administrator
Center for Structural Biology
Vanderbilt University