inetd.conf(5)
NAME
inetd.conf − Internet daemon configuration data base
DESCRIPTION
The inetd.conf file contains information regarding the services that inetd() will handle by opening sockets and listening for requests. For each service, a single line should be present with the following information:
Official service name (must be in /etc/services)
Socket type (stream or dgram)
Protocol name (must be in /etc/protocols)
Delay (wait or nowait)
Program (fully specified server program name)
Arguments (up to five arguments for server program)
Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. A “#” indicates the beginning of a comment. Characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines that search the file.
Fields may contain any printable character other than a field delimiter, newline, or comment character.
A server marked as “wait” must be able to handle all requests that come to it during its lifetime. The inetd() program will not invoke any new instances of the program until the current one terminates. If a server is marked as “nowait”, then a new invocation of the server will be started for every incoming request.
FILES
/etc/inetd.conf