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19.1 Invocation

Normally, inetd is invoked without any arguments. It does, however, support several command line options. These are:

-d

--debug

Turns on debugging. With this option, inetd stays in foreground and prints additional debugging information of stderr.

--environment ¶

Pass local and remote socket information in environment variables. See Inetd Environment.

-p[file] ¶

--pidfile[=file]

Use file as location to store process ID of the running server process, thus overriding the default location. Setting an empty argument will disable the use of a file for storing the process ID.

--resolve ¶

Resolve IP addresses when setting environment variables. See Inetd Environment.

-R rate ¶

--rate=rate

Specify the maximum number of times a service can be invoked in one minute; the default is 1000.