On Friday, May 25, 2012, nalin@redhat.com via RT wrote:

> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:14:10AM -0400, Nico Williams via RT wrote:
> > The way inetd starts wait services is so ingrained into daemons that
> > support inetd that any change to it would have to be optional and would
> > take a long time to be adopted.  Still, if you can find an inetd daemon
> > that can do this then we could make krb5kdc support it.
>
> The one I had in mind was systemd:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.socket.html
>
> In newer releases we still start the daemons as regular services, but
> being able to have systemd wait to fire them up until clients first
> attempt to talk to them could be handy.
>

Ok, yeah, systems can do what you, or so it seems from the link you posted.

Nico
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