From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 20:12:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA28906 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:12:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA28621 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:12:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA28574; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:11:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:11:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Leif Neland cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd and portmapper In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25 Feb 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > I am a little unsure about what inetd and portmapper does. Inetd is sometimes called the `super server daemon' since it listens on ports listed in /etc/inetd.conf for connections, and when they come in, it starts the program specified on the port's line on that port. portmapper is used for RPC (Remote Procedure Call) services to attach a service to a network port. Hint: Type `man ' to find out what does. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message