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19.1 Invocation
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Normally, 'inetd' is invoked without any arguments.  It does, however,
support several command line options.  These are:

'-d'
'--debug'
     Turns on debugging.  With this option, 'inetd' stays in foreground
     and prints additional debugging information of stderr.

'--environment'
     Pass local and remote socket information in environment variables.
     *Note Inetd Environment::.

'-p[FILE]'
'--pidfile[=FILE]'
     Use FILE as location to store process ID of the running server
     process, thus overriding the default location.  Setting an empty
     argument will disable the use of a file for storing the process ID.

'--resolve'
     Resolve IP addresses when setting environment variables.  *Note
     Inetd Environment::.

'-R RATE'
'--rate=RATE'
     Specify the maximum number of times a service can be invoked in one
     minute; the default is 1000.