hiro <23h...@gmail.com> writes:
> all this makes sense. thank you. > i might be dense, but what's the problem with inetd exactly? > I have two main gripes with it: - it runs as root, in order to switch users when launching a server, and therefore is a security risk. - it can be configured only by root, or if you share the file with a group, there's no fine-grained control over who can do what. In contrast, files in a dir can be chowned to individual users, or different groups, allowing a per-port per-user attribution scheme, which is very handy on a multi-user system :) > On 3/5/24, a...@9srv.net <a...@9srv.net> wrote: >> I wonder what percentage of people who reply are going to be running a >> finger server they wrote. :-) My tcp79 comes from my implementation, >> here: http://txtpunk.com/finger/index.html >> >> I think we've got enough interoperable unicode-aware implementations we can >> start working on the update to the RFC now. >> >> I have a service which allows some unix hosts I run to submit vac scores >> after they perform a backup to my venti; a slightly outdated version is >> here: https://9p.io/sources/contrib/anothy/bin/rc/tcp17038 >> >> tcp411 calls pqsrv, I think the same version as on the "extra" >> page: http://9p.io/sources/extra/ >> >> I usually have at least one "poor man's nat traversal" thing running with >> aux/trampoline. >> >> I love how easy aux/listen makes sticking trivial little services up on the >> net. I used to have one that provided a menu of MUDs to connect to. Another >> gave the weather, as the telnet service at Weather Underground started to go >> unmaintained (of course, mine used darksky, which is now also defunct). I >> made a little text-based zine server (inspired by Cara >> Esten's https://github.com/caraesten/dial_a_zine, which powered the things >> at anewsession.com); that's up, although very lightly >> used: http://txtpunk.com/zine/ <http://txtpunk.com/zine/index.html> >> >> Before life got away from me last year, I was trying to get a VoIP bridge >> working so I could plug a POTS line into my modem and get telcodata working >> again. I think 'cp tcp2323 telcodata' should be enough to make that zine >> server dialable. (Sadly, I've only gotten the bridge to *place* calls over >> my crummy DSL line.) >> >> As a young unix sysadmin back in the 1900s, aux/listen was one of the first >> things that caught my eye about Plan 9, in comparison to inetd and the >> direction everyone else was headed from there. Certainly the growth (in >> multiple senses) of systemd has only tightened my grip on that particular >> tool. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf73851503467346f-Mfb9ec82c181d0b246e6a3dd2 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
