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List:       firewalls-gc
Subject:    Re: Unix vs. Windows NT
From:       Marc Mosko <marc () tear ! com>
Date:       1996-12-11 12:37:53
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Peter da Silva wrote:
> 
> > >Easy on UNIX. There's only two places where services can be set up on UNIX.
> > >     /etc/rc*
> > >     /etc/inetd.conf
> 
> > How about /var/spool/cron/crontabs ?
> 
>         a) I have never seen a *service* started up from crontabs or atjobs.
>         b) No UNIX system is shipped with a server starting from there.
>         c) In setting up a firewall, I can't see any way you'd be setting
>            a service up to run from crontab.
>         d) And if you did, *you* did it, not the vendor. Presumably when
>            you're setting up a firewall you know what you're doing.
>         e) If you don't know what you're doing, hire someone who does
>            before you play this game.

Some packages, such as listproc and INN use crontab to make sure the
appropriate daemon is still running.  They execute a little script every
15 minutes or so and if they cannot find the daemon via "ps" the script
will re-launch the daemon.

I use the same trick for many other things, like checking for smapd and
xntpd.

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