Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual page 197

INETD(8)
MAINTENANCE COMMANDS INETD( 8)
NAME
inetd - internet services daemon
SYNOPSIS
/ete/lDeW ( -d )
DESCRIPTION
Inetd is the internet super-server which invokes all internet server processes as needed.
Connection-oriented services are invoked each time a connection is made, by creating a process.
This process is passed the connection as file descriptor 0 and an argument of the form
"sourcehost.sourceport" where sourcehost is hex and sourceport is decimal.
Datagram oriented services are invoked when a datagram arrives; a process is created and passed
the connection as file descriptor O. Inetd will look at the socket where datagraOl8 arrive again
only after this process completes. The paradigms for such proceses are either to read off the
incoming datagram and then fork and exit, or to process the arriving datagram and then time
out.
Inetd consults servers(S) when it is invoked, and supports whatever services are in that file.
OPTIONS
--d Specifies that debugging traces are to be turned on for connection-oriented (TCP) sere
vices.
FILES
/etc/servers list of internet server processes
SEE ALSO
BUGS
42
servers(S), comsat(8C), ftpd(8C), rexecd(8C), rlogind(8C), syslog(8), rshd(8C), talkd(8C),
telnetd(8C), trtpd(8C)
There is no provision for selectively invoking TCP debugging packet tracing per-service.
Should reread the servers(S) file on receipt of a SIGHUP signal.
Last change: 27 December 1983 Sun Release
1.1