AIX: Adding Inet Services:

Title:

AIX: Adding Inet Services:

Author:

Douglas O’Leary <dkoleary@olearycomputers.com>

Description:

How to update /etc/inetd on AIX

Date created:

05/1999

Date updated:

06/2000

Disclaimer:

Standard: Use the information that follows at your own risk. If you screw up a system, don’t blame it on me…

Just to be fucking different than every other UNIX in the world, IBM changed the way to add inet services. To do that, do the following:

1. Add appropriate information to the /etc/services file.

2. Add appropriate information to the /etc/inetd.conf file.

3. Run inetimp

4. refresh -s inetd