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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!uucp.primenet.com!news.typo.org!web From: BOFH <web@typo.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,alt.sys.sun,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: ping script Date: 1 Aug 1996 10:11:18 GMT Organization: typo.org Lines: 10 Message-ID: <4tpvs6$m51@typo.org> References: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960702171209.4062B-100000@gold.acns.fsu.edu> <4tp6ao$cal@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.primenet.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.admin:71615 alt.sys.sun:10468 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1287 comp.unix.programmer:40450 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4448 comp.unix.admin:45596 John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> wrote: : > If inetd died you can forget about telneting to any of the services. : ...except sendmail which is often run as a standalone daemon. So what it sendmail dies? There's no sure way to monitor a system really. All you can do is get a good approximation. (And fwiw, I've not seen inetd die on any system I manage for QUITE a while. The only exceptions are A: A bug in inetd which was patched by the vendor and B: an instance where the system in question was suffering from an ill simm.)