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xinetd vs. inetd
Authored by: gvaughn on Aug 31, '03 03:35:47PM

My Powerbook G4 running 10.2.6 shows both xinetd and inetd in the process list. I believe I read somewhere that inetd is subordinate to xinetd in OS X (now, what version that started, I'm not sure).

In light of this, would we be better off using xinetd?



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xinetd vs. inetd
Authored by: nyarlathotep on Aug 31, '03 05:16:49PM

I'm running only inetd on my PowerBook under 10.2.6, but you may have gotten an xinetd installed via fink.. or you may have a more recent 10.2.6 patch.

The truth is that it should not matter what you use. Starting an ssh process is lots of overhead and having one inetd pass the call off to another should be an unnoticible delay. So your question really should be "What should we do to make this a robust change?" i.e. what can we do to prevent an upgrade from breaking this. I have absolutely no idea. Infact, that is part of why I bothered to submit this hint was to provide myself with a permenent record of just what the hell I did, so that I can undo / redo it after 10.3 breaks everything. :)



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