ITOX(8)

💖 ITOX(8) 💖

okay bestie, so this is itox from the System Manager's Manual, section 8, and it's literally the glow-up tool for your service configs 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

itox — converts inetd.conf style configuration files to xinetd.conf

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

itox [-daemon_dir <dir_name>]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so the way this works, bestie: itox takes inetd.conf style entries on its standard input, and dumps the matching xinetd.conf style entries straight to standard output. that's it. that's the whole vibe. in goes old-school, out comes new-school, no cap ✨

like a glow-up but for config files. iconic.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -daemon_dir <dir_name> — okay so if you're running tcpd, this one tells itox the directory where all the daemons live. and listen — you must specify this option if you use tcpd and the daemon file names are not absolute. not optional, fr fr. absolute paths and you can skip it, relative paths and you need it 💅

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

here's the classic, bestie — feeding inetd.conf in, catching xinetd.conf out:

itox -daemon_dir /usr/sbin < inetd.conf > xinetd.conf

look at that pipeline. she's serving. 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

xinetd and itox were written by Panagiotis Tsirigotis.

this man page was written by Norbert Veber <nveber@debian.org> and Thomas Seyrat <tomasera@debian.org> 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by xinetd, dated March 2005, living in section ITOX(8). go convert something cute 💖✨