starting a service on use

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Jamon Camisso <jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 07/10/10 06:52 PM, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>> how do i start a service when a request comes in?
>> i don't want the service running when the system boots up.
>
> You want to use xinetd.
>
> Jamon

afik ubuntu doesn't come with xinetd, i think it uses inetd? if so is
it a simple matter of removing one and installing the other, do i need
to worry about configuration files?
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