[Sunhelp] inetd.conf time

[James Lockwood]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Flynn, Harold M. III wrote:

> I've been researching time in /etc/inetd.conf.  The service runs on port 37
> according to /etc/services, and looks like it accepts both tcp and udp.  The
> time manpage doesn't seem to be related, although it'd be odd if it was, as
> it's a process time monitoring.  If this is true, that'd mean processes are
> either monitored via tcp/udp,  or there's other functions that this daemon
> is performing in the process of monitoring.  Interesting.

man inetd:

     inetd  provides a number of simple Internet services  inter-
     nally. These include
      echo ,  discard,  chargen  (character  generator),  daytime
     (human-readable  time), and time  (machine-readable time, in
     the form of the number of seconds since midnight, January 1,
     1900).

-James