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9.6. O super servidor inetd

Inetd (geralemente chamado de “Internet super-server”) é um servidor de servidores. Ele executa servidores, raramente usados, sob demanda, para que eles não tenham que rodar continuamente.
O arquivo /etc/inetd.conf lista esses servidores e suas portas habituais. O comando inetd ouve em todas elas; quando ele detecta uma conexão em qualquer uma delas, ele executa o programa servidor correspondente.
Cada linha significativa do arquivo /etc/inetd.conf descreve um servidor através de sete campos (separados por espaços):
The following example illustrates some use-cases after installing talkd, nullidentd (ident-server), and fingerd:

Exemplo 9.1. Excerto do /etc/inetd.conf

#:BSD: Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols.
talk   dgram   udp     wait    nobody.tty   /usr/sbin/in.talkd      in.talkd
ntalk  dgram   udp     wait    nobody.tty   /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd     in.ntalkd

#:INFO: Info services
ident  stream  tcp     nowait  nobody       /usr/sbin/nullidentd    nullidentd
finger stream  tcp     nowait  nobody       /usr/sbin/tcpd          /usr/sbin/in.fingerd
The tcpd program is frequently used in the /etc/inetd.conf file. It allows limiting incoming connections by applying access control rules, documented in the hosts_access(5) manual page, and which are configured in the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files. Once it has been determined that the connection is authorized, tcpd executes the real server (like in.fingerd in our example). It is worth noting that tcpd relies on the name under which it was invoked (that is the first argument, argv[0]) to identify the real program to run. So you should not start the arguments list with tcpd but with the program that must be wrapped.