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)