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Internet Daemon

inetd Conﬁguration File

Adding New Services to inetd Conﬁguration

There are two steps required to add a new service to the suite of

Internet Services offered on your system. First you enter a line of

information for the speciﬁc service to the inetd conﬁguration ﬁle. Then

you have inetd reread its conﬁguration ﬁle, which is sometimes called

reconﬁguring the Internet daemon. In the unlikely event that inetd is

not running when you edit the conﬁguration ﬁle, you will invoke the

new conﬁguration by starting inetd. Starting inetd is explained later

in this chapter.

To edit the inetd conﬁguration ﬁle, do the following:

1. Open the conﬁguration ﬁle with an MPE text editor.

The contents will resemble the following:

######################################################################

# sample inetd configuration file

# For information on how to configure this file refer to the Configuring

# and Managing Internet Services manual

# Note: The entries cannot be preceded by a blank space. Blank lines

# and lines beginning with a pound sign(#) are ignored.

######################################################################

# Internet server configuration database

echo stream tcp nowait MANAGER.SYS internal

echo dgram udp nowait MANAGER.SYS internal

daytime stream tcp nowait MANAGER.SYS internal

daytime dgram udp nowait MANAGER.SYS internal

time stream tcp nowait MANAGER.SYS internal

time dgram udp nowait MANAGER.SYS internal

discard stream tcp nowait MANAGER.SYS internal

discard dgram udp nowait MANAGER.SYS internal

chargen stream tcp nowait MANAGER.SYS internal

chargen dgram udp nowait MANAGER.SYS internal

#telnet stream tcp nowait MANAGER.SYS internal

#bootps dgram udp wait MANAGER.SYS /SYS/NET/BOOTPD bootpd

#tftp dgram udp wait USER.TFTP /SYS/NET/TFTPD tftpd

2. Each of the services that run under inetd must have an entry in the

conﬁguration ﬁle. For example, the entry for the tftp program in

INETDCNF.NET.SYS looks like this:

tftp dgram udp wait USER.TFTP /SYS/NET/TFTPTD tftpd

For the service that you are installing, check the ﬁle to see if it has

the correct entry. (Each chapter in the remainder of this manual has

this information. The meaning of the individual ﬁelds in an entry