On 7/7/2004 at 10:13 PM, EE ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

E> What is xinetd?

xinetd is an enhanced version of inetd (internet daemon), which is basically a wrapper 
for other internet daemons. You can use xinetd to run FTP, BIND, Apache, etc.

The benefit as opposed to standalone is that since everything goes through xinetd, you 
can tweak it more. Xinetd allows you to customize network utilization, set priorities 
for certain daemons, and tons of other crap.

If you're a desktop user (or even a small server operator), its usually better to run 
everything in standalone. However, for larger scale stuff xinetd is invaluable to 
allocating resources.

I guess you could somewhat think of it as "nice" (the program) for networking, but the 
analogy breaks down from there :)


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