[1359] in Athena Bugs
inetd options
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Fri Nov 11 11:42:42 1988
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 88 11:42:10 EST
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
If inetd is given invalid options, it complains, but still (silently)
forks to run, attempting to listen on ports.
If you specify an alternate configuration file, it still writes its
process-id file in /etc, wiping out one that might have been there
before (if you run it as root). If the system-started one is still
running, this causes access_o{n,ff} to lose. (It doesn't appear to
let you specify the pathname of this file.)
The man page doesn't seem to describe the -d option.
There should be an option to prevent it from forking.
There should be an option to force all "switched" services to be
permanently in one state or the other.
-- Ken
