Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

[joe <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
> Thu, 13 Sep 2007, by joe@xxxxxxxxxx:
> 
>> Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> This is part of a script to manage accounts of a vsftpd server
>>> It's called after an account is added, deleted or when a password
>>> has been changed.
>> It's not immediately apparent to me why the script sometimes fails, but I've
>> been running vsftpd from xinetd for years on a busy site, so this sort of
>> thing is not needed. Any particular reason you need to run it standalone?
> 
> There's no reason not to.
> (x)inetd is usefull when the resources are limited, and when it's
> better to have a single process listening for incoming connections,
> but in my server there are plenty resources for a stand-alone FTP
> server and the other services too (openVPN, sftp, ssh, Postfix), so
> why would I make it difficult with secondary xinetd process?
> Anyway, this has nothing to do with the problem.

It has everything to do with the problem - if you run vsftpd from xinetd there
is no need to manually restart it when adding/deleting/changing user accounts.
In fact that's one of the main reasons we switched to xinetd. But, that
doesn't answer your question, so I will respectfully bow out of the discussion
 now.

Joe


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