z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

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inetd daemon — Provide Internet Service Management
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Description
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inetd [–d] [configuration file]
The inetd daemon provides service management for a network. For example, it
starts the rlogind program whenever there is a remote login request from a
workstation.
The rlogind program is the server for the remote login command rlogin commonly
found on UNIX systems. It validates the remote login request and verifies the
password of the target user. It starts a z/OS shell for the user and handles
translation between ASCII and EBCDIC code pages as data flows between the
workstation and the shell.
When inetd is running and receives a request for a connection, it processes that
request for the program associated with that socket. For example, if a user tries to
log in from a remote system into the z/OS shell while inetd is running, inetd
processes the request for connection and then issues a fork() and execl() to the
rlogin program to process the rlogin request. It then goes back to monitoring for
further requests for those applications that can be found as defined in the
/etc/inetd.conf file.
–d Specifies that the inetd daemon be started in debug mode. All debug
messages are written to stderr.
configuration file
Specifies that the inetd daemon be started with a configuration file other
than the default /etc/inetd.conf file.
inetd recognizes the following signals:
SIGTERM
Terminates inetd in an ordinary fashion and deletes /etc/inetd.pid. You can
restart inetd, if you want.
SIGINT
Same as SIGTERM.
SIGHUP
Rereads the inetd configuration file. This can be used to start new services,
or to restart services with a different port.
Other signals that normally end a process (such as SIGQUIT or SIGKILL) should
not normally be sent to inetd because the program will not have a chance to
remove /etc/init.pid.
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