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Chapter 2 37

Internet Daemon

Starting and Stopping inetd

Passwords on JINETD

When you stream the job ﬁle JINETD.NET.SYS, it logs on as

MANAGER.SYS. As part of the installation of inetd, you must take care of

any password requirements for this job. Two of the ways that you can

do this include:

• Add the MANAGER.SYS passwords directly to the job ﬁle, then alter

the ﬁle security afterwards so that only MANAGER.SYS can read it.

For example:

:ALTSEC JINETD.NET.SYS; (R,W:CR;X,L:AC)

• Use the PASSEXEMPT parameter of the JOBSECURITY command

(version C.60.00 and later) to control password exemption.

Starting inetd Interactively

You may also start inetd interactively, though this is not recommended

for normal use. To do so, enter the following command at the CI prompt:

:INETD.NET.SYS

Or, from the POSIX shell enter this command:

$/etc/inetd

When you start inetd interactively, $STDLIST for the Internet daemon

is your terminal. This means that all error and warning messages that

normally go to JINETD’s spool ﬁle will appear on the screen.

Error and Status Reporting for inetd

While inetd is running, any errors and other status messages that it

generates are recorded so that you can monitor its condition. All errors,

regardless of their degree of seriousness, are sent to the $STDLIST

device assigned to inetd. For example, if you streamed JINETD, error

messages will appear in the spool ﬁle associated with that job. More

critical errors are displayed on the system console in addition to being

sent to $STDLIST. For more information, read “Using inetd Message

Logging” later in this chapter.

Stopping inetd

To stop inetd, you abort the JINETD job. Stopping the inetd server

(aborting JINETD) will cause subsequent incoming connection requests

to be refused.

1. First ﬁnd the number assigned to JINETD by entering:

:SHOWJOB JOB=@J