hi,

i've been wondering if its possible to run a script from the inetd/xinetd? will a simple shell script suffice this or do i still need a perl script that will act as a server?

as much as possible i don't want to do things i c or other sort of programming language.

Hi spyghost,
You can just run a script from netd/xinetd. just open up a file under /etc/xinetd.d/ in the name of your script and add the default values which can be copied from any of the other service files which lie in /etc/xinetd.d . in every configuration file under xinetd .. ie .. in /etc/xinetd.d/ .. you have a directive named "server = /Path/to/scriptfile". this is the location in which you must keep your script. after that just restart xinetd by the command " service xinetd restart". this will start the service script..
vimal.........

thanks, i got your idea, but how about if i place it in /etc/inetd.conf?

Hi spyghost,
the file you specified (/etc/inetd.conf), is the configuration file for inetd service. you cant add the script there since it controls another daemon. you can add it as i said earlier.
vimal...