On 11 mai 2004, at 22:27, Roger Marquis wrote: > "slimmy baddog" wrote: >> I would strognly suggest that you dont use inetd for running services >> but >> running all your services as daemons wich is much faster for the >> system >> and safer. > > That used to be the recommendation, back when 50MHz CPUs were the > norm. With 1 GHz and faster CPUs the difference between sshd and > inetd starting a child sshd is in the millisecond range i.e, impossible > to distinguish by look and feel. in fact, I've seen an Apple XServe (two G4 1GHz processors) running MacOS X Server beeing DOSed by a remote Nagios probe testing it's sshd once per minute. On OSX, sshd runs from xinetd. The box used to need hard reboot once a day until the problem was identified and the nagios probe was disabled. my 2 cents. patpro -- je cherche un poste d'admin-sys Mac/UNIX (ou une jeune et jolie femme riche) http://patpro.net/cv.php _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"