December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
10h 4m
English
The /usr/sbin/inetd daemon provides Internet service management for a network. This daemon reduces system load by invoking other daemons only when they are needed and by providing several simple Internet services internally without invoking other daemons.
When the daemon starts, it reads its configuration information from the file specified in the Configuration File parameter. If the parameter is not specified, the inetd daemon reads its configuration information from the /etc/inetd.conf file. Once started, the inetd daemon listens for connections on certain Internet sockets in the /etc/inetd.conf and either handles the service request itself or invokes the appropriate server once ...
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