Very Computer

Now a collegue of mine tells me that as soon as inetd is started it
spawns a number of processes simply because corresponding entries are
in inetd.conf.

The entries are like the following:
myApp       stream  tcp     nowait  myusr     /mypath/myApp   myapp
<myargs>

Is that possible?
What is it that I don't understand about how inetd uses inetd.conf?

Thanks,
--Ulf

Quote:>Now a collegue of mine tells me that as soon as inetd is started it
>spawns a number of processes simply because corresponding entries are
>in inetd.conf.

For some udp services, there might be enough broadcast packets
floating around that the service starts up instantly.  This could
give the illusion that the are started "simply because corresponding
entries are in inetd.conf."