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Subject: Re: BSD demon?
Message-ID: <1993Aug22.225238.18081@emba.uvm.edu>
From: wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 22:52:38 GMT
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In article <BZS.93Aug22181552@world.std.com>,
Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
>
>>Ah, but which daemon is he supposed to be?
>
>I'd say inetd, the progenitor of daemons, and a berkeley-ism if there
>ever was one. Small, cute, and the spawner of both pleasure and pain.

Unless you have a Sun version with all that RPC stuff in it, too...

-GAWollman

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