Update the Modifying Services That Are Controlled by inetd Section

  • The following content replaces the introductory paragraph of Modifying Services that are Controlled by inetd in Managing System Services in Oracle Solaris 11.4:

    inetd is the delegated restarter for many internet services that run under the Service Management Facility (SMF). inetd performs the following actions:

    • Manages service states in response to administrative requests

    • Manages system failures

    • Manages service failures

    • Listens to the network for service requests, when appropriate

  • The following content places information about identifying services that are controlled by inetd into a new section of Modifying Services that are Controlled by inetd in Managing System Services in Oracle Solaris 11.4:

    Identifying Services That Are Controlled by inetd

    To confirm that the service you want to modify is controlled by inetd, use either the inetadm command or the svcs -R command. The following examples uses these commands to list all inetd controlled services. Note that the following examples show only a partial list:

    $ inetadm
    ENABLED   STATE          FMRI
    enabled   online         svc:/application/cups/in-lpd:default
    ...
    disabled  disabled       svc:/application/x11/xvnc-inetd:default
    $ svcs -R network/inetd:default
    STATE     STIME          FMRI
    online    8:11:10        svc:/application/cups/in-lpd:default
    ...
    online    8:11:11        svc:/network/rpc/smserver:default

    The general/restarter service property indicates whether a particular service is controlled by inetd.

    $ svcprop -p general/restarter cups/in-lpd
    svc:/network/inetd:default

    The svcs -l command also shows the restarter. Note that the following example shows only partial output:

    $ svcs -l cups/in-lpd
    ...
    restarter    svc:/network/inetd:default
    ...
  • Rename the Converting inetd Services to SMF Services in Managing System Services in Oracle Solaris 11.4 section to Converting an inetd.conf Defined Service Definition to an SMF Service. Move this renamed section to the end of the Modifying Services that are Controlled by inetd section.