While Debian installs openbsd-inetd by default, there is no lack of alternatives: we can mention inetutils-inetd, rlinetd, and xinetd, which all provide the virtual package inet-superserver.
The options are as follows: -d 1. Turns on debugging. -E 1. Preventsinetdfrom laundering the environment. Without this option a selection ofpotentially harmful environment variables, includingPATH will be removed and not inherited by services. -i 1. Makes
First appearing in 4.3BSD, [1] it is generally located at /usr/sbin/inetd. inetd is based on the (service) activator pattern [2] Often called a super-server, inetd listens on designated ports used by Internet services such as FTP, POP3, and telnet.
inetd is an Internet super-server (also known as daemon) which is run by root at boot time. It runs in a background and answers requests for services or certain internet sockets such as Telnet or FTP.