Re: more questions

[Michael Hill <Michael_Hill@csgsystems.com>]

On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 02:38:13PM -0500, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
>I notice in KGMD, all daemons are renamed:
>
>   /usr/etc/in.ftpd 
>   /usr/etc/in.telnetd
>   /usr/etc/in.rslogind
>   /usr/etc/in.rshd
>   
>Is there any particular reason for that? Does it turn an internal 
>switch in these daemons or anything? Or only for convenience?

It's the modern UNIX naming convention for daemons that are started by
inetd instead of running standalone.

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