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authorsheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>2000-02-29 17:36:44 +0000
committersheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>2000-02-29 17:36:44 +0000
commit3c68a89c755c31d6d3feb671550c6c84c2cecd21 (patch)
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Remove broken hard sentence breaks, which mess up the typeset output.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.848
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8 b/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8
index 1d91cd9..a644905 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ Turn on debugging.
.It Fl l
Turn on logging.
.It Fl w
-Turn on TCP Wrapping for external services. See the
+Turn on TCP Wrapping for external services.
+See the
.Sx "IMPLEMENTATION NOTES"
section for more information on TCP Wrappers support.
.It Fl W
@@ -211,7 +212,8 @@ the file
.Pa /etc/rpc .
The part on the right of the
.Dq /
-is the RPC version number. This
+is the RPC version number.
+This
can simply be a single numeric argument or a range of versions.
A range is bounded by the low version to the high version -
.Dq rusers/1-3 .
@@ -365,10 +367,13 @@ service may be explicitly specified by appending a
.Dq /
followed by the number to the
.Dq nowait
-keyword. Normally
-(or if a value of zero is specified) there is no maximum. Otherwise,
+keyword.
+Normally
+(or if a value of zero is specified) there is no maximum.
+Otherwise,
once the maximum is reached, further connection attempts will be
-queued up until an existing child process exits. This also works
+queued up until an existing child process exits.
+This also works
in the case of
.Dq wait
mode, although a value other than one (the
@@ -378,7 +383,8 @@ for a given IP address by appending
a
.Dq /
followed by the number to the maximum number of
-outstanding child processes. Once the maximum is reached, further
+outstanding child processes.
+Once the maximum is reached, further
connections from this IP address will be dropped until the end of the
minute.
.Pp
@@ -436,11 +442,13 @@ looking up the user name fails, return a default
user name to the requesting ident client. This is primarily useful
when running this service on a NAT machine.
.It Fl t Ar sec[.usec]
-Specify a timeout for the service. The default timeout is 10.0 seconds.
+Specify a timeout for the service.
+The default timeout is 10.0 seconds.
.It Fl r
Offer a real
.Dq auth
-service, as per RFC 1413. All the remaining flags apply only in this case.
+service, as per RFC 1413.
+All the remaining flags apply only in this case.
.It Fl f
If the file
.Pa .fakeid
@@ -533,24 +541,28 @@ or
.Dq dgram
except for
.Dq internal
-services. If the
+services.
+If the
.Fl W
option is given, such
.Dq internal
-services will be wrapped. If both options are given, wrapping for both
+services will be wrapped.
+If both options are given, wrapping for both
internal and external services will be enabled.
.Pp
If the
.Fl l
option is specified, all connection attempts are logged, whether they are
-allowed, denied or not wrapped at all. Otherwise, only denied requests will
+allowed, denied or not wrapped at all.
+Otherwise, only denied requests will
be logged.
.Pp
Note that
.Nm
only wraps requests for a
.Dq wait
-service while no servers are available to service requests. Once a
+service while no servers are available to service requests.
+Once a
connection to such a service has been allowed, inetd has no control
over subsequent connections to the service until no more servers
are left listening for connection requests.
@@ -563,7 +575,8 @@ For more information on TCP Wrappers; see the relevant documentation (
).
When reading that document, keep in mind that
.Dq internal
-services have no associated daemon name. Therefore, the service name
+services have no associated daemon name.
+Therefore, the service name
as specified in
.Pa inetd.conf
should be used as the daemon name for
@@ -658,7 +671,8 @@ Important error messages and their explanations are:
.No " server failing (looping), service terminated."
.Xc
The number of requests for the specified service in the past minute
-exceeded the limit. The limit exists to prevent a broken program
+exceeded the limit.
+The limit exists to prevent a broken program
or a malicious user from swamping the system.
This message may occur for several reasons:
.Bl -enum -offset indent
@@ -697,10 +711,12 @@ No entry for
.Ar user
exists in the
.Xr passwd 5
-database. The first message
+database.
+The first message
occurs when
.Nm
-(re)reads the configuration file. The second message occurs when the
+(re)reads the configuration file.
+The second message occurs when the
service is invoked.
.Pp
.It Xo
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