Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Software Posted to net.sources Message-ID: <427@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 22:08:18 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.427 Posted: Wed Feb 6 22:08:18 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 05:25:56 EST References: <240@cadre.ARPA> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 15 > I have posted a program to net.sources call netd. > With it you can add network services easily without > the cost of an idle background process per service. > > It can also be used to eliminate most of the 4.2 server > processes that run in the background started by /etc/rc > and /etc/rc.local. This is the same thing that Berkeley put in in "4.3BSD" (or whatever it'll be called when it comes out), and which UNET also had. Berkeley called it "inetd", and they talk about it in their performance paper that was given at Salt Lake City. Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy