inetd.conf(5)inetd.conf(5)Nameinetd.conf - Internet daemon configuration data base
Description
The file contains information regarding the services that will handle
by opening sockets and listening for requests. For each service, a
single line should be present with the following information:
Official service name (must be in
Socket type (stream or dgram)
Protocol name (must be in
Delay (wait or nowait)
Program (fully specified server program name)
Arguments (up to five arguments for server program)
Items are separated by any number of blanks or tab characters. A num‐
ber sign (#) indicates the beginning of a comment. Characters up to
the end of the line are not interpreted by routines that search the
file.
Fields may contain any printable character other than a field delim‐
iter, newline, or comment character.
A server marked as ``wait'' must be able to handle all requests that
come to it during its lifetime. The program will not invoke any new
instances of the program until the current one terminates. If a server
is marked as ``nowait'', a new invocation of the server will be started
for every incoming request.
FilesSee Alsoprotocols(5), services(5), inetd(8c)inetd.conf(5)