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Extended Internet Services daemon, which starts internet protocols such as FTP or telnet as needed

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Haskell default io buffering

Yesterday I wrote a little xinetd exercise for my students: make a reverse echo program. To learn something new, I tried to implement a Haskell solution. The trivial main = forever $ interact reverse does not work. I went through this question and…
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Pass Arguments to Bash Script when xinetd receive message via udp

i was wondering if its possible to pass args to a bash script when xinetd receive a command from a random host (in lan) via udp. To clearify: when i send e.g. hello from a random client to the xinetd server i want the xinetd server to pass the hello…
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reading from sys.stdin without newline or EOF

I want to recieve data from my gps-tracker. It sends data by tcp, so I use xinetd to listen some tcp port and python script to handle data. This is xinetd config: service gps-gprs { disable = no flags = REUSE socket_type =…
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Xinetd disable stderr redirection

I just setup xinetd for one of my binary to run as a service. However it appears to me that both stdout and stderr is redirected into the socket stream. Is there anyway to disable the stderr ? I try in the server field of xinetd setting: server =…
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Executing script on receiving incoming connection with xinetd

I want xinetd to execute a shell script when a connection is received on a certain port. To accomplish this, followed this tutorial: [enter link description here][1] Unfortunately, the whole thing doesn't work as I hoped that's why I am going to…
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Xinetd error service/protocol combination not in /etc/services

Trying to create a simple xinetd style server without needing to create a full service first. I have the following file which is located at /etc/xinetd.d/myscript: service tester { disable = no socket_type = stream …
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why xinetd can't run shell service

guys,i have a problem on using xinetd,the error message is 'xinetd[20126]: execv( /home/fulu/download/mysqlchk_status2.sh ) failed: Exec format error (errno = 8)' the system operation is : CentOS release 6.2; i installed the xinetd by the command…
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Solving the xinetd "Transport endpoint is not connected"

I'm trying to get a simple websocket proxy to work with xinetd. The proxy is here : https://github.com/kumina/wsproxy (basic proxy for vnc) Here's my xinetd/wsproxy config: service wsproxy { type = UNLISTED socket_type = stream …
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Can Windows Service be started by incoming TCP connection?

I'd like to make a small Windows Service, that would be shutdown most of the time, but would be automatically activated when incoming TCP (REST?) connection comes. I do not want the service to be running 24/7 just in case (albeit that might trn to…
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Can't see echo output of shell script using xinetd

I've created a simple shell script named /usr/sbin/helloworld #!/bin/bash echo "Hello World" mkdir ~/itran read -p "Say Hello : " hello echo "$hello" exit 0 I created /etc/xinetd.d/testservice-map as below service testservice { port …
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How do you get xinetd to work with wait=yes for protocol=tcp

I have a service which will listen on port 8443 after it is launched. I have xinetd configured to start my service when a connection is made on port 8443. So Xinetd should launch my application and then let my application handle any more incoming…
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Firebird Classic server on Ubuntu 13.10 listen to remote connections

I've installed Firebird Classic on Ubuntu (13.10) and I need to open it to remote connections. netstat -an on port 3050 shows this: tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3050 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN I tried editing /etc/xinet.d/firebird25 to…
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How To use JRMP (RMI) with both encryption (ssl) AND xinetd?

So, I'm rolling-my-own Java-based application server (because Glassfish, et al, aren't for non-web-based apps), and, of course, encryption is an absolute must. So, I coded up a basic ssl solution using the standard SslRMIClientSocketFactory, and…
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Ruby Script fails while invoked via xinetd

This is my first post on stack overflow and it's a bummer, so please bear with me. I have a ruby script which has worked flawlessly for years on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server. I set up a new Ubuntu 22.04 Server and migrated the Script, but it doesn't work…
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python xinetd client not receiving data

I'm trying to use xinetd to remotely run a command (traccejob). When I connect through telnet, everything works fine. Unfortuantely, the client that I've written doesn't seem to receive the data from the server. The code looks…
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