From: David Oggs (dogs at domain wind.voyager.ie)
Date: Tue 18 Jul 2000 - 10:21:48 IST
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:46:33AM +0100, SP K wrote:
> whats the differnce/advantages of starting something
> with an intetd entry against starting it under rc.3 ??
> and vice versa
>
...it also makes sure a service keeps running, i.e. if one instance dies it'll
be respawned anyway at the next request. It also provides an easy way to run
a service on a privileged port as a non-root user.
-- Regards, dogs at domain devfoo.net
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