<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> Hi,</div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> I have a old legacy service that's a bit odd in that it was previously launched by xinetd but is weird in that:</div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> After an initial quite quick auth and set up a daemon is forked of to run the much longer process.</div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> Setting this up with a socket me.socket and me@.service does not work quite right for us.</div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> In particular I want the socket to close once the fork happens.</div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> If the service is Type=forking things do work but socket is persisted - that's not great for thing doing the original submission. It expects the socket to be short lived.</div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> Only workaround I have which is rubbish for obvious reasons is to use the service with Type=simple, KillMode=None to leave the forked process running.</div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> Anyway to persuade the socket service to close earlier.</div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> Presumably in the xinetd world xinetd was oblivious to this forked process.</div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> Steve.</div> </body> </html>