Re: RPC services and ipsvc?

On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 04:43:22PM +0000, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> I've recently migrated all but one of my former xinetd services to run
> under ipsvc. The only one remaining is the "sgi_fam" service, whose
> xinetd descriptor looks like this:
> 
>   service sgi_fam
>   {
> 	type         = RPC UNLISTED
>         socket_type  = stream
>         user         = root
>         group        = nobody
>         server       = /usr/bin/fam
> 	wait	     = yes
> 	protocol     = tcp
> 	rpc_version  = 2
> 	rpc_number   = 391002
> 	bind         = 127.0.0.1
>   }
> 
> Is there a way to run this and other RPC services under ipsvc, as well?

No, I don't think so, can't fam run as a stand-olone daemon?  And after
reading this thread recently, I'm also not sure it's a good idea to use
RPC to register dynamically allocated ports:

 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01062.html
 
Regards, Gerrit.