The services can be fired when the system boots, which will occupy its respective ports and waiting for connections always. It will be using resources un-necessarily if the services will be used occasionally.
xinetd process run behalf of the services and it starts the process if any connection comes. So, it saves more system resources.
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
why xinetd
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