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Internet Daemon

inetd Conﬁguration File

Reading an entry from left to right, these ﬁelds are:

Field Purpose

service name The name of the service in the services

ﬁle.

socket type Either stream if the socket is a stream

socket, or dgram if the socket is a

datagram socket.

protocol A valid protocol name, either tcp or

udp, as entered in the protocols ﬁle.

wait state One of two states, wait or nowait, that

applies only to datagram sockets. The

wait entry instructs inetd to execute

only one datagram server for the

speciﬁed socket at any one time. This is

a single-threaded datagram server. The

nowait entry instructs inetd to

execute a datagram server for a

speciﬁed socket whenever a datagram

arrives, which frees the socket so that

inetd can receive further datagrams.

This is a multi-threaded datagram

server.

user The identiﬁcation of the user when the

server is running.

server program The absolute path of the program that

inetd executes when it receives a

connection request.

arguments Arguments to the server program,

beginning with argument zero, which is

the name of the program.