What is Inetd?

[LogenWilson]

Hi

Let me know what is Inetd? Actually my mail server frequently jamming and when I restart this daemon it starts working again. Due to this reason I've set up a cron job to restart it every two hour.

[Michelle Taylor]

I think it starts the Internet network daemon. Have you been activated the service in /etc/inetd.conf? Inetd is stands for a super server daemon on Unix based systems that cope up the Internet services and usually placed at /user/sbin/inetd. The default line referring to pop3 in /etc/inetd.conf. In addition it listens on all ports used by Internet services such as FTP, POP3, and Telnet.

[bl-hom]

Inetd is a super-server daemon on many unix systems that manages internet services. It listens to specific ports so that it could launch the appropriate server program to handle such request. It is compatible with different internet services like FTP, POP3 and telnet. Generally, it needs not be that secure but this flaw could be exploited and abused by others.

[Jaylene]

Intd is a super-server daemon on many Unix systems that mnages Internet services. First appearing in 4.3BSD, It is generally located at /usr/sbin/inetd, Also its not harmful but require a security rating yet..!