Who cares?

Posted Dec 17, 2013 18:23 UTC (Tue) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Who cares? by flohoff
Parent article: Which init system for Debian?

Who boots anyway? Last boot is probably a year ago.

Various people boot their computers rather more frequently than you for various reasons, including "so that I know it still boots", "so that I am not running a twelve-month-old kernel with widely-known vulnerabilities that have since been fixed", "because I have a dual-boot desktop system", and "because however much work has been done on it, I still don't entirely trust hibernation to come back up cleanly".

Some deamon claiming ports it does not speak the protocol of - Wait what?!?

A daemon setting up a socket it doesn't speak the protocol of, so that it can (when a connection attempt is made) fork(), exec() the daemon that does speak the protocol, and hand the socket to it, is not a Lennartism, or even a Linuxism; inetd was released as part of 4.3BSD in 1986.