Daemon startup command line. Used mainly to specify options to the daemon. Deciding the right options to use when adding an entry to inetd.conf is a topic for another page. Right now, we need to concentrate on using entries that are already there. First, notice the entry for gopher.
Most systems come, by default, with most common services ready to be used.
This means that you will quite likely have to go through this file and comment out most, if not all services. In fact, I would recommend commenting out everything, except those services that you know that you need, and whose entry in inetd.conf you understand completly. Now, everytime you make changes to inetd, you must restart it. This can be done with the following two commands. This is the system's response.