In Oracle Solaris 11, there are services that are out of the SMF context and they are controlled by another (and old) daemon: inetd. Inetd is the official restarter of these network services and, during the tasks where we are managing them, the main command to accomplish all tasks is inetadm
. It is time to see how this works.
This procedure requires a virtual machine (using VirtualBox or VMware) running Oracle Solaris 11 and with 4 GB RAM.
Initially, there are a few interesting services to play with. Therefore, we have to install a good service: telnet
. Execute the following command:
root@solaris11-1:~# pkg install pkg://solaris/service/network/telnet
To list the existing inetd services, execute the following commands:
root@solaris11-1:~# inetadm
ENABLED STATE FMRI
disabled disabled svc:/application/cups/in-lpd:default
disabled disabled svc:/application/x11/xfs:default
disabled disabled ...