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Questions tagged [inetd]

Questions relating to using inetd/xinetd. Those are daemons provide a so-called "superserver" or "superdaemon" listening for incoming requests.

That is mainly useful for cases when some service is only very seldom called and therefore needs not be running (as daemon) all the time - thus saving resources.

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Should I use inetd or xinetd?

I see openbsd-inetd is installed by default but there are quite a few mentions of xinetd in AskUbuntu. I have a custom service to install. inetd would provide all the features I need. Should I be using inetd or xinetd to be most compatible with…
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Where can I find my inetd.conf or xinetd.conf?

I tried looking into the /etc/ folder, but I couldn't find it. I even did a full system scan using find / -name inetd.conf still in vain.
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How to start vnc server on-demand (not on boot)

I have a vps which has the basic xfce environment & tightvncserver installed. I would like to have tightvncserver automatically start whenever I initiate a connection to the port it runs on (in my case, 5901). I've seen posts about using inetd or…
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Inetd limit access to one user

I am using telnet because of a barcode reader. It is pretty old before 2000 i think and it seems that it supports only telnet via wifi connection. However how can i restrict telnet access to only this device ip and to only one user? How can i force…
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Telnetd not working ubuntu server 23.10

I am trying to set up telnet server in my ubuntu server 23.10 machine. I am able to install telnetd service and gives me no error but when i try to see if its running using netstat -ltp and there is no port listening for telnet. When I run sudo…
Omar Almonte
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Telnet not working on Ubuntu 20.04

I want Ubuntu to be telent server, for which I installed telnetd: ngadre@in01-7h4wrf3:~/Documents/release6.6.1/caos$ sudo apt install telnetd -y [sudo] password for ngadre: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state…
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inet suddenly disappeared, after `dhclient`, it restarts, but won't last long

I am new to ubuntu, but have to set up R/Rstudio server and work remotely. Just moved the ubuntu server (Ubuntu 20.04) back home, and the connection became unstable while other PCs are working well. Test connection with ping 8.8.8.8, shall stay…
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cannot remove package inted

How to remove inted package? if I try $ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove inetd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package 'inetd' is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly…
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ftpd.service failed to load: No such file or directory

$ sudo apt-get install ftpd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done …
Jonathan
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