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10.4: Force use of launchd for upgraded installs
Authored by: geohar on May 16, '05 01:25:45PM

For sure, but you _still_ need to remove the contents of /etc/xinetd.d/ in order that system prefs uses launchd, rather than xinetd. Simply disabling xinetd will not work.

Additionally, it's probably worth noting that xinetd will not run unless something is put into /etc/xinetd.d (launchd watches for this and launches it - beacause launchd is actually used to launch xinetd!!).

As xinetd doesn't run unless there's something in the directory for it to run on, it's probably worth leaving it 'enabled' in it's launchd plist - that way, if an installer puts something there, it'll run fine. The rest will still use launchd, because their /etc/xinetd.d/ entries will be missing.



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