NAME
micro_inetd - simple network service spawner
SYNOPSIS
micro_inetd port program [args ...]
DESCRIPTION
Like inetd, this program listens on the net for requests and spawns a
server to handle them. However, it only handles one port and one
program. The intended use is when you have a server that expects to be
run by inetd, but you only want to run it temporarily and don’t want to
bother with putting it into /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf and
restarting inetd. Instead, just start up micro_inetd, and when you’re
done just ^C it.
Other limitations:
* Full inetd lets you specify the socket type as one of stream,
dgram, raw, rdm, or seqpacket; micro_inetd only implements
stream.
* Full inetd lets you specify wait or nowait; micro_inetd only
implements nowait.
* Full inetd lets you specify a user-id to run the server as;
micro_inetd doesn’t try to switch user-ids.
SEE ALSO
inetd(8), inetd.conf(5)
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1996,2000 by Jef Poskanzer <jef@mail.acme.com>. All
rights reserved.
17 December 2000 micro_inetd(1)