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Re: And now for something completely different... etch!



On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:06:55AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:40:48PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:37:29AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > > Why?  What if I prefer to have something from inetd only when necessary
> > > instead of constantly running daemons everywhere?
> > 
> > Why on earth would you? It's just more administrative overhead, and
> > yet another package you didn't need.
> > 
> You can't really thank that in *every* case that is true.  What if I or
> another user in a situation where the administrative overhead is better
> or more desirable than the overhead of having a daemon running in the
> background all the time?

Then you can go install xinetd, just like all sorts of other weird
shit. Oh look, you can *already* do that.

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