Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2526] newstartd

[Tom Holub <doosh@best.com>]

On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 12:23:51AM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote:
> Question of curiousity. Why isn't newstartd (now netrekd) not run from inside
> inetd?
> 
> I ask because I am fighting with Redhat 6.0's runlevel stuff and how it likes
> to start daemon processes. Having a daemon started at boot time as a non-root
> user is not easy with RH 6.0.

Uh, what's wrong with "su games -c netrekd"?

> If netrekd was called out of inetd, then who the process runs as would be
> simplifed by altering the inetd.conf file.

You'd need to modify /etc/services, kill -HUP inetd and probably init,
add a whole bunch of lines to inetd.conf (currently 6 ports are listened
on by default).  Plus you'd have to rewrite the startup code.  It's a bad
idea.
 -Tom