xinetd - needed?

Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Thu Dec 4 10:35:44 UTC 2003


Short answer: No.

Long answer:
  The GNOME desktop, in Fedora, relies on sgi_fam for updating in real
time the state of files that you see on your desktop.
  So if you can't live without it, you need it because sgi_fam is
launched by xinetd.
  The _real_ problem is portmap.

Rui

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 10:24, Kevin Francis wrote:
> I have xinetd loading on boot (runlevel 5).
> 
> Do I really need this? I know that it's supposed to run services on
> demand, but I already have *all* services listed in /etc/xinetd.d/
> running on startup ...
> 
> Also, any suggestions on what I can trim down to make the system
> generally lighter?
-- 
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
+ So let's do it...?

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