[Gllug] inetd limits

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:05:14PM +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> Just a throwaway thought; there is a program called 'tcpserver' (I think)
> which is a companion opf the qmail package, which does a similar sort of
> thing to inetd (ie listens for connections and spawns the required process).
> We use it to run the qmail-smptd processes.
> >From memory I think it may only listen on one port, but if you have a
> specific service that needs more spwans that inetd happily caters for,
> tcpserver may be your answer.

If looking for a smarter replacement for inetd, xinetd would be my first
stop.


-- 
Bruce


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