Submitted by: debdrup (with some minor changes by kevans)
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages)
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24818
One of the fortunes that are included in freebsd-tips talks about how
the superserver can be used to proxy connections with netcat, but there are
no examples provided. This commit adds an example with comment explaining
what it does.
Submitted by: debdrup
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24800
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
for each of udp and tcp (and their IPv6 equivalents when INET6 is
enabled). Note that dependency here.
PR: docs/90435
Submitted by: Dmitry Kazarov <kazarov at mcm dot ru>
Pointed out by: Daniel Gerzo <danger at rulez dot sk>
MFC after: 8 days
method of executing commands remotely. There are no rexec clients in
the FreeBSD tree, and the client function rexec(3) is present only in
libcompat. It has been documented as "obsolete" since 4.3BSD, and its
use has been discouraged in the man page for over 10 years.
invocations of each service from a single IP address.
Requested by: matusita
Reviewed by: dwmalone
Tested by: matusita on snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org
MFC after: 2 weeks
how to use this feature are in the man page. This is based on work
by Lyndon Nerenberg.
(The only difficult part about this patch is the fact that you
can't fchown a unix domain socket, which means the sockets must be
put in a secure directory).
Reviewed by: dillon
been patched so many times it was a bit of a mess. There are style,
code and man page cleanups. The following are the functional changes:
The RFC only permits the returning of 4 possible error
codes, make sure we only return these (PR 27636).
Use MAXLOGNAME to determine the longest usernames.
Add a -i flag, which returns the uid instead of the username
(this is from a PR 25787, which also contained alot of the
cleanups in this patch).
PR: 25787, 27636
Partially Submitted by: Arne.Dag.Fidjestol@idi.ntnu.no
Reviewed by: Arne.Dag.Fidjestol@idi.ntnu.no, green
MFC after: 3 weeks
page.
Add ability to run "inetd -R 0" to disable the default connection
per minute limit of 256 connections. Document this in man page.
Don't use maxchild as a boolean - instead check if it is greater
than zero.
Reviewed by: sheldonh
Based on a patch by: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
the committer (shin). While I don't have permission for this change
from the inetd maintainer (des), I assume that shin has permission
and I'm just fixing his contribution up for him.
Okay, I couldn't resist, I made some extra changes:
* Replace ".Tn FreeBSD" with .Fx
* Make the illegal TCPMUX and IPSEC sections legal subsections
of the IMPLEMENTATION NOTES section.
Requested by: shin
garbage value for the username (hex garbage, that is), and the -d flag
provides a default username for fallback purposes if the user cannot be
looked up. That is very useful for the case where inetd auth is
running on a NAT box.
While I'm here updating the manpage, clean up an English error and a
few small nits.
