4.2. Service Initialization

4.2.1. xinetd

Xinetd is a daemon used to start network services on demand. The changes in xinetd are related to the allowed limit of open file descriptors:

The listening mechanism has changed from select() to poll(). With this change, the limit of open file descriptors used by xinetd can be changed.
File descriptor limit can also now be changed on a per-service basis. This can be done in the configuration file for the service using the rlimit_files directive. The value can be a positive integer or UNLIMITED.

Github

Youtube

Twitter

Learn

Try, buy, & sell

Communities

About Red Hat Documentation

We help Red Hat users innovate and achieve their goals with our products and services with content they can trust.

Making open source more inclusive

Red Hat is committed to replacing problematic language in our code, documentation, and web properties. For more details, see the Red Hat Blog.

About Red Hat

We deliver hardened solutions that make it easier for enterprises to work across platforms and environments, from the core datacenter to the network edge.