ultrix man page for inetd

inetd(8c)																 inetd(8c)

Name
       inetd - internet service daemon

Syntax
       /etc/inetd [ -d ] [ configfile ]

Description
       The daemon is the listener daemon for most of the internet service functions.

       When is started, it reads the configuration file specified (configfile) and opens a socket for each specified service.

       When receives a connection on a stream socket or a packet on a datagram socket, then invokes the server specified in the configuration file
       to service the request.	The server is given a socket descriptor of 0 for the service requested.  The configfile is the configuration  file
       specifying  the services requiring the daemon's services.  If a configuration file is not specified, then uses the default file, The format
       of this file is described in The configuration file is reread whenever receives a hangup signal.

Options
       -d Open all sockets with the debug option.  The socket will be passed to the server with debug enabled.

Restrictions
       The daemon can only handle a limited number of services at any one time.  This number is related to the maximum number of file  descriptors
       that a process can have.  If many services are needed, you should run multiple copies of each with its own individual configuration file.

Files
See Also
       inetd.conf(5)

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