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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-08 00:21:31 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-08 00:21:31 +0000
commit31da08892cd3349676917320548e92b7170e539f (patch)
tree2bcc05bd61d8dc50843a9df23594a4b4501a7f54 /usr.sbin/inetd
parent3035e250c3d7a79b3f5d0de48cc642b4d4752ad1 (diff)
usr.sbin/ man page repairs, a-i
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/inetd')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.843
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8 b/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8
index 12341b84f23..fe7859ca030 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)inetd.8 6.7 (Berkeley) 3/16/91
-.\" $Id: inetd.8,v 1.6 1997/11/14 03:46:00 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $Id: inetd.8,v 1.7 1998/11/08 00:21:30 aaron Exp $
.\"
.Dd March 16, 1991
.Dt INETD 8
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
.Op Fl R Ar rate
.Op Ar configuration file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm Inetd
+.Nm inetd
should be run at boot time by
.Pa /etc/rc
(see
@@ -78,7 +78,9 @@ file which, by default, is
.Pa /etc/inetd.conf .
There must be an entry for each field of the configuration
file, with entries for each field separated by a tab or
-a space. Comments are denoted by a ``#'' at the beginning
+a space. Comments are denoted by a
+.Dq #
+at the beginning
of a line. There must be an entry for each field. The
fields of the configuration file are as follows:
.Pp
@@ -92,8 +94,7 @@ server program
server program arguments
.Ed
.Pp
-To specify an
-.Em Sun-RPC
+To specify a Sun-RPC
based service, the entry would contain these fields.
.Pp
.Bd -unfilled -offset indent -compact
@@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ server program
server program arguments
.Ed
.Pp
-For Internet services, the first field of the line may also have a host
+For internet services, the first field of the line may also have a host
address specifier prefixed to it, separated from the service name by a
colon. If this is done, the string before the colon in the first field
indiciates what local address
@@ -114,7 +115,8 @@ indiciates what local address
should use when listening for that service. Multiple local addresses
can be specified on the same line, separated by commas. Numeric IP
addresses in dotted-quad notation can be used as well as symbolic
-hostnames. Symbolic hostnames are looked up using gethostbyname().
+hostnames. Symbolic hostnames are looked up using
+.Fn gethostbyname .
If a hostname has multiple address mappings, inetd creates a socket
to listen on each address.
.Pp
@@ -123,7 +125,7 @@ The single character
indicates
.Dv INADDR_ANY ,
meaning
-.Sq all local addresses .
+.Dq all local addresses .
To avoid repeating an address that occurs frequently, a line with a
host address specifier and colon, but no further fields, causes the
host address specifier to be remembered and used for all further lines
@@ -147,8 +149,7 @@ name
.Em must
be the official name of the service (that is, the first entry in
.Pa /etc/services ) .
-When used to specify a
-.Em Sun-RPC
+When used to specify a Sun-RPC
based service, this field is a valid RPC service name in
the file
.Pa /etc/rpc .
@@ -179,7 +180,7 @@ Examples might be
.Dq tcp
or
.Dq udp .
-Rpc based services are specified with the
+RPC based services are specified with the
.Dq rpc/tcp
or
.Dq rpc/udp
@@ -205,13 +206,13 @@ on a socket and eventually time out, the server is said to be
and should use a
.Dq wait
entry.
-.Xr Comsat 8
+.Xr comsat 8
.Pq Xr biff 1
and
.Xr talkd 8
are both examples of the latter type of
datagram server.
-.Xr Tftpd 8
+.Xr tftpd 8
is an exception; it is a datagram server that establishes pseudo-connections.
It must be listed as
.Dq wait
@@ -254,7 +255,7 @@ entry should contain the user name of the user as whom the server
should run. This allows for servers to be given less permission
than root. An optional group name can be specified by appending a dot to
the user name followed by the group name. This allows for servers to run with
-a different (primary) group id than specified in the password file. If a group
+a different (primary) group ID than specified in the password file. If a group
is specified and user is not root, the supplementary groups associated with
that user will still be set.
.Pp
@@ -278,7 +279,7 @@ word
.Dq internal
should take the place of this entry.
.Pp
-.Nm Inetd
+.Nm inetd
provides several
.Dq trivial
services internally by use of
@@ -292,17 +293,17 @@ routines within itself. These services are
.Dq time
(machine readable time,
in the form of the number of seconds since midnight, January
-1, 1900). All of these services are tcp based. For
+1, 1900). All of these services are TCP based. For
details of these services, consult the appropriate
.Tn RFC
from the Network Information Center.
.Pp
-.Nm Inetd
+.Nm inetd
rereads its configuration file when it receives a hangup signal,
.Dv SIGHUP .
Services may be added, deleted or modified when the configuration file
is reread.
-.Nm Inetd
+.Nm inetd
creates a file
.Em /var/run/inetd.pid
that contains its process identifier.
@@ -328,8 +329,6 @@ The
.Nm
command appeared in
.Bx 4.3 .
-Support for
-.Em Sun-RPC
+Support for Sun-RPC
based services is modeled after that
-provided by
-.Em Sun-OS 4.1 .
+provided by SunOS 4.1.