.TH inetd "" "" "System Maintenance"
.PC "Basic networking daemon"
.PP
.B inetd
is the basic Internet daemon.
This daemon listens for requests from clients on other machines on your network,
and attempts to respond to them.
It services requests for time and date information,
for echoing and generating characters, and
.B talk
and
.B send
transactions.
It also listens for requests to most other daemons, such as
.B ftpd
and
.BR telnetd .
The system administrator can configure what it can listen for.
.SH "See Also"
.B
daemon,
system maintenance
.R
