Open System Services Shell and Utilities Reference Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

Administrator Commands and Files inetd(8)

empty brackets are used with the -L ﬂag; that is, all external service programs run on the

processor used by inetd.

SrvPath

The pathname of the server program that is to be executed by inetd when a service

request is found on its socket. If inetd provides a service internally, this entry should be

internal.

SrvArgs

The command-line arguments that the server process must execute. For services that

inetd provides internally, this ﬁeld should be left empty.

The arguments to a SrvPath entry should be speciﬁed just as they normally are for a shell

command line, starting with argv[0], which is the name of the program.

The inetd process can provide several trivial services itself, without using external server pro-

grams. These services are echo, discard, chargen (character generator), daytime (human-

readable time), and time (machine-readable time, in the form of the number of seconds since

midnight January 1, 1900). All of these services are tcp based.

The inetd process rereads its conﬁguration ﬁle when it receives a hangup signal, SIGHUP. Ser-

vices may be added, deleted, or modiﬁed when the conﬁguration ﬁle is reread.

EXAMPLES

1. To start inetd as a named process and restrict it to satisfying approximately 10 service

requests per minute, enter:

/usr/ucb/inetd -R 10 -W /G/INETD /etc/inetd.conf &

2. To start inetd as a named process and perform load balancing for the rexecd service

using processors 2 through 4, enter:

/usr/ucb/inetd -R 10 -W /G/INETD -L &

using an /etc/inetd.conf conﬁguration ﬁle that contains the following entry:

exec stream tcp nowait super.super [2-4] /bin/rexecd

3. To start inetd as a foreground process, enter:

/usr/ucb/inetd -f

4. These SCF commands conﬁgure and start the inetd process as a persistent process:

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