inetd.conf.4 (2010 09)

inetd.conf(4) inetd.conf(4)

If service name is rpc (NFS RPC services), two extra ﬁelds are required. They must appear between the

server program ﬁeld and the server program arguments ﬁeld:

program number Deﬁnes a particular service grouping and is unique.

version number Version supported by the RPC service. This number can be a single value, or a

range, if the program handles multiple versions; for example,

1 or 1-3.

Ranges are separated by a hyphen (

-). Version numbers allow RPC protocols

to be extended and modiﬁed, and make it possible for old and new protocols to

share the same server process.

Built-in inetd Services

The

inetd daemon provides several "trivial" services internally by use of built-in routines (see inetd (1M)

for a list of these services). To conﬁgure an internal service, specify

internal as the server program

name, and omit the server program arguments ﬁeld.

EXAMPLES

Conﬁgure the

shell service to use TCP protocol, and run the server

remshd as user root.

shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/remshd remshd

The above is an example of the remsh utility run in the IPv4 mode. To run the above utility in the IPv6

mode, the protocol tcp must be changed to tcp6. Thus the above conﬁguration is re-written as below to

run in IPv6 mode.

shell stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/lbin/remshd remshd

Conﬁgure the FTP server to timeout an inactive session after 75 seconds.

ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -t75

The above ftp service can be run in IPv6 mode using the conﬁguration shown below:

ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -t75

Conﬁgure an RPC-based service. Note that the service name ﬁeld contains rpc and two more ﬁelds are

used: the program number (100008) and version number (1).

rpc dgram udp wait root /usr/lib/netsvc/rwall/rpc.rwalld 100008 1

rpc.rwalld

Conﬁgure inetd to use the built-in daytime TCP service.

daytime stream tcp nowait root internal

AUTHOR

inetd.conf was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.

NFS was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.