I assume in.inetd is a new name for the familiar inetd . If so, what it does
is watch a bunch of ports for incoming requests and, when one comes in,
start the appropriate server to handle the request. (Optionally, it uses a
program like tcpd to do all this more securely.) Typically, it runs all the
familiar services ECCEPT smtp mail (sendmail) and your Web server --
services such as telnet, ftp, pop3, and finger.
To se ethe full list of standard services, look in /etc/services. To see
which ones your inetd is actually set to run, look in /etc/inetd.conf .
The S in SW means the process is sleeping. In practice this means it is
waiting for some resource (a file, a printer, a serial port .. whatever) to
become available. ("man ps" for more details.) To see what's going on, you
might see if inetd is logging anything to any of your log files (on a
typical system, /var/log/messages and /var/log/debug are the main two log
files).
At 07:21 PM 6/7/99 +0200, Gevaerts Frank wrote:
>What exactly does in.inetd do ? Today we had over a hundred processes of
>it on our mailserver at work (for three or four users). ps -ax showed the
>process state as SW. Does anyone know what this means ?
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