On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Clint Adams wrote: > > Now I do agree with your initial statement, not all things should conflict. > > wmcdplay and xmcd both play cd's -- they dont conflict. However a deamon > > provides a known service that only one should be performing at ALL times. > > That is a very narrow viewpoint. I am looking right now at a machine > with 4 inetd.confs (one for each IP). This is FreeBSD, so they can > do that. They aren't running anything on the auth ports (and there > are 4 auth ports--1 primary IP, 2 aliases, and 1 localhost). > They could quite easily run 4 different identds out of the four > different inetds, with no conflict except the one in your mind. > Now, of course, Debian's inetd doesn't support binding to specific > IP, but hopefully that will be fixed in future.
Are they automatically setup [ the 4 auth ports ] or is some manual intervention required? Anand.
