Re: ? about inetd and radacct

David Carmean (dave@west.net)
Fri, 2 Feb 1996 03:12:34 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, David Alan Pisoni wrote:

[major snippage]

> Well, naturally I could run radiusd in blocking mode, but then what is the
> purpose of running it under inetd at all? Why not just run it standalone,
> if in blocking mode. I had thought of that solution, but it seemed to me
> there must be another way....
>

Insurance against radiusd crashing, I guess. I ran it
standalone first, and after it crashed a couple of times I decided
running under inetd was better. (My version is hacked/being hacked,
so the crashes don't neccessarily represent the operation of the
software as distributed.)

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