system services

[rec.sea at btopenworld.com]

> xinetd is for starting-on-demand
>
> Usually there should be both documentation and example configuration in the
> package.
>
> In short there you tell xinetd which protocol (TCP or UDP) and which port a
> certain service uses and it then monitors that port.
> When there some activity there, e.g. an application connecting to it, then
> it starts the respective service and lets it handle the request.
>
> For delayed start you could replace the service's link in the runlevel
> directory with a script which starts a background job that first sleeps and
> then calls the actual startup script (the one the original link pointed to)

Would that improve performances? 

I was thinking of having an icon on the desktop, for starting all the services 
we usually use for development under kde only on demand.

Is that possible using the system you describe?
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