On 27-Dec-99 David Wetzel wrote:
> I would like to write a deamon that is started by inetd and allows  
> connections on some port. all it needs to do for the first (play) version is 
> to echo each line.
> 
> Telnetd is a bit huge. Which (small!) program should I look at?
> 
> Thanks.

If you are writing it to be run via inetd.. you don't have to do any socket
code at all..  as a matter of fact:

#!/bin/sh
echo "hello"

Will do the expected thing when executed through inetd.

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