- "Seek3r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| I am new to qmail and tcpserver. I installed tcpserver and was
| under the impression that it was a superserver like inetd, only
| better. I conffigured to to manage qmail, qmail pop3, telnet, and
| ftp. The thing I noticed when checking my processes was that
| tcpserver had 2 processes for each of the services
|
| for example it had the following for telnet.
| supervise /var/lock/telnetd tcpserver -v -c40 -x /etc/tcprules.d/telnetd.
| tcpserver -v -c40 -x /etc/tcprules.d/telnetd.cdb -u0 -g0 0 telnet in.teln
|
| With inetd it only had inetd running, until the telnet port was hit,
| then it would spawn the telnetd process.
| I am curious if this is how its designed to work, or if I am doing
| something wrong.
Yes, this is how it is designed to work. No, you are probably not
doing anything wrong. I believe inetd is designed under the
assumption that having lots of little processes each listening to a
single port is expensive compared to having just one process doing the
job. tcpserver is designed under the opposite assumption. (Perhaps
both assumptions are right, depending on your definition of
"expensive", but I'll leave that question to others to ponder.)
- Harald
