11-01-2019
pgrep inetd shows the process and
pkill -HUP inetd reloads it.
It is necessary to inform inetd, because it starts the service daemons in inetd.conf on demand.
-1 should be identical to -HUP
When the fingerd service is disabled the finger command works nevertheless. But a remote finger @thishost does not get any data from this host.
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
fingerd
FINGERD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual FINGERD(8)
NAME
fingerd -- remote user information server
SYNOPSIS
fingerd [-d] [-k] [-s] [-l] [-p filename]
DESCRIPTION
The fingerd utility uses a simple protocol based on RFC1196 that provides an interface to finger(1) at several network sites. It is supposed
to return a friendly, human-oriented status report on either the system at the moment or a particular person in depth. There is no required
format and the protocol consists mostly of specifying a single ``command line'', thus, fingerd can also be used to implement other protocols
in conjunction with the -p flag.
The fingerd utility is started by inetd(8), which listens for TCP requests at port 79. Once connected it reads a single command line termi-
nated by a <CRLF> which is passed to finger(1). The fingerd utility closes its connections as soon as the output is finished.
If the line is null (i.e., just a <CRLF> is sent) then finger(1) returns a ``default'' report that lists all people logged into the system at
that moment.
If a user name is specified (e.g., eric<CRLF>) then the response lists more extended information for only that particular user, whether
logged in or not. Allowable ``names'' in the command line include both ``login names'' and ``user names''. If a name is ambiguous, all pos-
sible derivations are returned.
The following options may be passed to fingerd as server program arguments in /etc/inetd.conf:
-d Enable debugging mode. In debugging mode, fingerd will not attempt any network-related operations on stdin, and it will print the
full finger command line to stderr before executing it.
-k Suppress login information. See the description of the -k option in finger(1) for details.
-s Enable secure mode. Queries without a user name are rejected and forwarding of queries to other remote hosts is denied.
-l Enable logging. The name of the host originating the query is reported via syslog(3) at LOG_NOTICE priority.
-p Use an alternate program as the local information provider. The default local program executed by fingerd is finger(1). By specify-
ing a customized local server, this option allows a system manager to have more control over what information is provided to remote
sites. If -p is specified, fingerd will also set the environment variable FINGERD_REMOTE_HOST to the name of the host making the
request.
SEE ALSO
finger(1), inetd(8)
HISTORY
The fingerd utility appeared in 4.3BSD.
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