[BusyBox] xinetd?
Russ Dill
Russ.Dill at asu.edu
Mon Jan 27 16:21:03 UTC 2003
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 16:07, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Hi folks,
> in our embedded system, we install services
> by downloading little binary tarballs and running
> the 'start.sh' inside the tarball. For inetd-based
> services, this has to append to /etc/inetd.conf.
> Fine... until you need to shut down the service,
> at which point it gets messy. Removing a line from
> /etc/inetd.conf is a pain to script.
>
> So it might be nice for busybox to support xinetd,
> where each service is controlled by a file in /etc/xinetd.d.
> Then our start and stop scripts can just create and
> destroy files in that directory, which is a lot easier
> to script.
why bother? create an /etc/inetd.d directory, add and remove files as
necessary, and when you need to update inetd.conf, do cat /etc/inetd.d/*
> /etc/inetd.conf. I do something similar with my inittab at boot.
--
Russ Dill <Russ.Dill at asu.edu>
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