I was looking at the WM monitor and there is a service called ‘Extended Internet Server’ - what is that?
It isn’t installed, but has sparked my curiosity!
It’s nothing you need to know about. It’s xinetd which is deprecated on modern Systemd systems, which is all of our supported operating systems today.
If you want a socket-activated service (which is what xinetd does), you create a socket unit for Systemd.
It’s a tool for quickly building a service with any scripting language that just needs to read/print STDIN/STDOUT to interact with something over the network.
Anyway, you don’t have it, and you probably never will unless you go out of your way to use retro UNIX-y systems. (I guess the BSDs still have an inetd, but I don’t think it’s xinetd…it’s been a long time since I’ve interacted with either.)
Mac OS also doesn’t use it, as far as I recall, replacing it with launchd.
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Oh, how disappointing!
I thought I was onto something that was going to boost performance or capabilities.
Is it worth removing if it is never used?
You can remove anything you don’t want to monitor, those are just some examples.