[luau] cron vs. anacron, xinetd useful?

[David Burns]

I mean, if I turn off xinetd, and later I install
something that won't work without it, how would I know
(besides RTFM)? (Naturally I always RTFM, but I still
make mistakes.) Presumably it won't work, but will it
bomb in some identifiable characteristic fashion, or
will I just have to scratchmy head and RTFM some more
until I have an epiphany?
TB

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom_Gordon/RISE/HIDOE at notes.k12.hi.us
Date: Friday, October 31, 2003 3:07 pm
Subject: [despammed] Re: [luau] cron vs. anacron,
xinetd useful?

> If a tree falls in the woods and noone is around to
hear it, does 
> it fall? 
> You'd probably know when a service you use is no
longer 
> available.  If 
> you don't know you need it then you don't need it. 
Check what 
> depends on 
> xinetd.d.
> 
> You can see a list of ENABLED depended services by
running this:
> 
> grep -li disable.*=.*no /etc/xinetd.d/*
> 
> This looks for all xinetd.d configs that are
enabled.  You can 
> also check 
> out the directory to see which services are disabled
that depend 
> on it 
> too.
> 
> Using redhat-config-services will keep you save in
that it knows 
> how these 
> dependencies work (usually) and will warn you.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> If I turn off xinetd, and later it turns out I need
> it, how would I know?