debian man page for micro-inetd

micro_inetd(1)						      General Commands Manual						    micro_inetd(1)

NAME
       micro_inetd - simple network service spawner

SYNOPSIS
       micro_inetd port program [args ...]

DESCRIPTION
       Like  inetd,  this  program  listens on the net for requests and spawns a server to handle them.  However, it only handles one port and one
       program.  The intended use is when you have a server that expects to be run by inetd, but you only want to run  it  temporarily	and  don't
       want  to  bother with putting it into /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf and restarting inetd.  Instead, just start up micro_inetd, and when
       you're done just ^C it.

       Other limitations:

       *    Full inetd lets you specify the socket type as one of stream, dgram, raw, rdm, or seqpacket;  micro_inetd only implements stream.

       *    Full inetd lets you specify wait or nowait; micro_inetd only implements nowait.

       *    Full inetd lets you specify a user-id to run the server as; micro_inetd doesn't try to switch user-ids.

SEE ALSO
       inetd(8), inetd.conf(5)

AUTHOR
       Copyright (C) 1996,2000 by Jef Poskanzer <jef@mail.acme.com>.  All rights reserved.

								 17 December 2000						    micro_inetd(1)