nwnetd(1M)                                                nwnetd(1M)


       NAME
             nwnetd - TLI application services daemon

       SYNOPSIS
             nwnetd [-d] [configuration-file]

       DESCRIPTION
             nwnetd, the TLI application services daemon, is normally run
             at boot time by the script in /etc/rc2.d.  When started,
             nwnetd reads its configuration information from
             configuration-file, the default being /etc/nwnetd.conf.  See
             nwnetd.conf(4) for more information on the format of this
             file.

             nwnetd listens for connections on the addresses of the
             services that its configuration file specifies.  When a
             connection is found, it invokes the server daemon specified by
             that configuration file for the service requested.  nwnetd
             also adds two additional arguments to the specified server:
             the transport provider (spx or tcp) and the universal address
             of the remote connection (based on the netbuf structure
             elements encoded in hexascii. See netdir(3N) for a description
             of netbuf).  These two arguments are used to translate the
             universal address to a transport-specific address.  You can
             use the universal address to check if the server is on a
             reserved port.

             The -d option puts inetd into debug mode. Note that when -d
             option is used, nwnetd is running in the foreground.
             (Debugging information is directed to the syslog daemon and
             logged based on the contents of the /etc/syslog.conf file.)

             Rather than having several daemon processes with sparsely
             distributed requests each running concurrently, nwnetd reduces
             the load on the system by invoking servers only as they are
             needed.

             nwnetd rereads its configuration file whenever it receives a
             hangup signal, SIGHUP.  New services can be activated, and
             existing services deleted or modified in between whenever the
             file is reread.  (To send a SIGHUP use kill -HUP pid, where
             pid is the process ID of the nwnetd process.)

       REFERENCES
             nrexecd(1M), nwnetd.conf(4)



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