RE: [VANILLA-LIST:2526] newstartd

["sheldon" <sheldon@visi.com>]

I wouldn't put netrek to autostart into a Netrek package.  Thus I would
leave how to start the server as an excercise to the user.

 Then whatever method you think is preferable to run the server as should be
documented.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Tanner [mailto:tanner@real-time.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 1999 12:24 AM
> To: vanilla-list@us.netrek.org
> Subject: [VANILLA-LIST:2526] newstartd
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>
> Question of curiousity. Why isn't newstartd (now netrekd) not
> run from inside
> inetd?
>
> I ask because I am fighting with Redhat 6.0's runlevel stuff
> and how it likes
> to start daemon processes. Having a daemon started at boot
> time as a non-root
> user is not easy with RH 6.0.
>
> If netrekd was called out of inetd, then who the process runs
> as would be
> simplifed by altering the inetd.conf file.
>
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