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The Service Configurator Framework An Extensible Architecture for Dynamically Configuring Concurrent, Multi-Service Network Daemons Douglas C. Schmidt and Tatsuya Suda schmidt@ and suda@ Department of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine, CA 92717, (714) 856-4105 An earlier version of this paper appeared in the proceedings vide communication-related services that resolve distributed of the IEEE Second International Workshop on Configurable name binding requests (e.g., named and rpcbind), access Distributed Systems, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1994. network file systems (e.g., nfsd), manage routing tables (e.g., gated and routed), report host and user activi- ties (e.g., rwhod and fingerd), and consolidate multi- Abstract ple network services such as terminal access (e.g., rlogin Developing extensible, robust, and efficient network daemons and telnet) and file transfer (e.g., ftp) together into is a challenging task. This paper describes an object-oriented a single “superserver” framework ( inetd and listen). framework consisting of automated tools and reusable com- The Service Configurator framework we have de- ponents that simplifies the task of developing, configuring, veloped provides an integrated set of tools that automate and reconfiguring concurrent, multi-service network dae-