Re: RPC services and ipsvc?

Gerrit Pape <pape <at> smarden.org> writes:

> 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:
> > 
> > [ ... ]
> > 
> > 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.

Thank you.

I'll investigate fam to see if perhaps there is another way to run it
that doesn't require RPC for dynamic port allocation.  I'd love to get
rid of [x]inetd altogether, and use your excellent ipsvc package for
everything.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
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 God bless you.