Thank you everyone for your input.

It makes a lot more sense now... now I can unplug my (IGNORANCE) sign.

Temporarily :-)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bixby [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 3:11 PM
> To:   Newton, Tony
> Cc:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Can syslog run under inetd?
>
>
>
> "Newton, Tony" wrote:
> >
> > (IGNORANCE)
> >
> > Then how do they get FTP to run under the inetd?
> >
> > (/IGNORANCE
>
> The 6.0 implementation of FTP was designed to run under inetd.  Inetd
> listens
> on the ftp socket for new connections, and then spawns an ftp server
> process,
> which runs until the user finishes transferring files and then terminates.
>
> Syslog is designed as a single always running process that listens to its
> own
> socket.  If you tried to configure it into inetd, inetd would listen to
> that
> socket, then spawn a syslog process, which would then try to start
> listening to
> the same socket that inetd is listening to, thus producing a socket in use
> error.
>
> On a busy system with lots of syslog messages, it's more efficient to be
> using
> a single always-running process, rather than having inetd spawning a new
> process for every message.
>
> - Mark B.
>
> >
> > ____
> > Tony Newton  |  [log in to unmask]
> > HP Systems Admin  |  (503) 574-5831
> > Providence Health Plan  |  www.providence.org
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ron Horner [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 12:55 PM
> > > To:   'Newton, Tony'; [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject:      RE: Can syslog run under inetd?
> > >
> > > I don't think so.  The reason being is that in each job stream, there
> is a
> > >
> > > program run.  The program does not exit and another copy of the job
> stream
> > >
> > > gets streamed.  Each of these programs requires a separate process.
> Now
> > > if
> > > you had a (I'm giving you a hint) Multi-process job stream, you could
> have
> > >
> > > a single job for both processes.
> > >
> > > Ron Horner
> > > Consulting Computer Specialist
> > > http://horner.horner.home.mindspring.com
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Newton, Tony [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 2:39 PM
> > > To:   [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject:      Can syslog run under inetd?
> > >
> > > > Can the syslog background process be run under the inetd background
> job?
> > > > ____
> > > > Tony Newton  |  [log in to unmask]
> > > > HP Systems Admin  |  (503) 574-5831
> > > > Providence Health Plan  |  www.providence.org
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >