NAME

       micro_inetd - simple network service spawner

SYNOPSIS

       micro_inetd port program [args ...]

DESCRIPTION

       Like  inetd,  this  program  listens on the net for requests and spawns a server to handle
       them.  However, it only handles one port and one program.  The intended use  is  when  you
       have a server that expects to be run by inetd, but you only want to run it temporarily and
       don't want to bother with putting it into /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf and restarting
       inetd.  Instead, just start up micro_inetd, and when you're done just ^C it.

       Other limitations:

       *    Full  inetd  lets  you  specify the socket type as one of stream, dgram, raw, rdm, or
            seqpacket;  micro_inetd only implements stream.

       *    Full inetd lets you specify wait or nowait; micro_inetd only implements nowait.

       *    Full inetd lets you specify a user-id to run the server as; micro_inetd  doesn't  try
            to switch user-ids.

SEE ALSO

       inetd(8), inetd.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1996,2000 by Jef Poskanzer <jef@mail.acme.com>.  All rights reserved.

                                         17 December 2000                          micro_inetd(1)