Inetd

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  inetd
       
           Berkeley daemon program that listens for
          connection requests or messages for certain ports and starts
          server programs to perform the services associated with those
          ports.  Sometimes known as netd.


       
          {Unix manual page}: inetd(8).
       
          (1995-03-20)