miscd(8c)
Name
miscd − miscellaneous services daemon
Syntax
/etc/miscd
Description
The miscd daemon is the service daemon for some utility internet services. It is started by inetd() when it receives a packet or a connection on an appropriate socket. Once invoked, miscd determines the type of request and the protocol and then attempts to service it.
When performing services for datagram functions, the daemon will stay active until approximately two minutes pass without a service request. It will then terminate until reinvoked by inetd(.).
Invocations of miscd serving for connection-based sockets will terminate when the connection is broken.
Restrictions
The miscd daemon supports only a subset of the internet utility functions. The supported services are echo, discard, systat, daytime, quote, chargen, and time.