> Thank you man heh now i know what that does, it helps me alot. Yeah its File
> Allocation Monitor i need it to install EFM for Enlightenment. EFM makes E a
> hell of alot easier to use and its very beautiful heh. Ok umm well so i guess
> im screwed?? or just have to wait for the fam people to make a build for RH7??
Thx
Nick Hudson
>
>
> If you're trying to install the equivalent of the File Allocation Monitor
> (FAM) daemon in IRIX, then it's looking for the inetd.conf file in order to
> add an entry there since that is the way the daemonis usually ran.
>
> Again, as some other people said, I don't think it would work with Red Hat
> 7 due to the fact that this release uses xinetd instead of inetd.
>
> By the way, since you asked in your original message what inetd is... it's
> also called the interned daemon or superdaemon. You can configure it to
> automatically start certain daemons when the system gets a connection
> through a certain port. For instance, whenever your system gets a request
> via port 23, inetd will spawn the telned daemon to reply to that request.
> Why use it? Well, that way you don't need to have the telnetd daemon
> running in the background constantly and can save some system resources.
> Another advantage: TCP wrappers. The inetd daemon checks the
> /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny file for security settings, etc.
> That's basically it, although there are some other things that could be
> said about it, of course. :)
>
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