cfservd as a true daemon running under inetd control

[Garrett, Matt M SITI-ITDIEEE]

Folks

Is it possible to make the cfservd program run under control of inetd
Just like any other true tcp daemon e.g ftpd

This would get around the problem of having different start / stop scripts
for different types of systems e.g HP-UX / Solaris

Also if a new version of cfengine comes out the binary files can just be copied 
over using its self
and next time cfrun is run the new version gets picked up.

The other problem it would solve is if a client has problems e.g run's out of 
swap space
the kernel tries to kill off process that are not been used.

I tried adding cfservd to /etc/inetd.conf as (Solaris 8)
cfengine        stream  tcp6    nowait  root    /usr/sbin/cwcfservd  cfservd

Note /etc/services looks like
cfengine        5308/tcp

It kind of works but the daemon does not die after use ?

Also first time connection is made the error report by cfrun is
cfengine:CLIENT: Challenge response from server 
SERVER.DOMAIN.com/XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX was incorrect!
cfengine:CLIENT: Authentication dialogue with SERVER.DOMAIN.com failed
cfengine:CLIENT: Unable to establish connection with SERVER.DOMAIN.com

But other connections after this work fine , but then cfservd is all ready 
running.

Any idea's

Oh version of cfengine is 2.0.5

Thanks

Matt


Matthew Garrett
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