The inetd Daemon and the inetd.conf Configuration File
Although there are a fair number of daemons in the base system that have .conf files in the /etc directory, the most important (and sensitive) one you will have to deal with is inetd, the “super-server.” We will take a brief look at inetd here, and discuss how to configure it.
The job of inetd is to listen for connections on a specified set of network ports and fire off the appropriate server process when a request comes in. For instance, inetd is in charge of telnet connections; if your system allows telnet, you can open a connection to it and receive a login prompt without any telnetd process running on the server beforehand. Every time the system receives a connection request on Port 23, ...
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