terminating services started from inetd

Joakim Tjernlund Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se
Thu Feb 26 15:32:26 UTC 2009


> 
> terminating inetd does not terminate any services already started by 
> inetd. I guess this is by design?
> What is the preferred way to terminate such services?
> 
>       Jocke

So I noticed this in xinetd's man page:
 SIGTERM        terminates   all   running  servers  before  terminating
                xinetd.

This implies that inetd should terminate all services when receiving a 
TERM.

bb, v1.12.2, inetd doesn't do that so I think that a bug in bb

 Jocke


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