topic Re: inetd.conf in Operating System - HP-UX

inetd.conf

Nobody's Hero — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:11:15 GMT

Can someone please tell me what these entries are for in inetd.conf?

daytime stream tcp nowait root internal
time stream tcp nowait root internal
daytime dgram udp wait root internal
time dgram udp wait root internal

Re: inetd.conf

Nobody's Hero — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:11:48 GMT

Oh yes, and are they related to 'timed' daemon ?

Re: inetd.conf

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:17:32 GMT

Hi:

These are the so-called "small tcp services".

The 'daytime' simply returns a day and time.

The 'time' returns a time in seconds.

You have one for the tcp protocol and another for the udp protocol.

You can disable these services as they are generally only useful in debugging and/or small demonstration programs. You should configure Network Time Protocol (NTP) for reliable time-keeping.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: inetd.conf

Jeff_Traigle — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:20:52 GMT

They are not related to "xntpd". (A quick Google search shows this is probably the equivalent to IBM's "timed" in AIX.)

Those are internal inetd services. Daytime reports system time in human readable format. Time reports system time as the number of seconds since midnight January 1, 1900).

See inetd(1M) man page.

Re: inetd.conf

dirk dierickx — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:19:20 GMT

those are entries best disabled ;)