On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 04:46:34PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I can't believe that I can't find the answer to this one. I have a
> perl script which is called by xinetd.
>
> I want that perl script to be able to detect the remote IP address
> of the caller.
>
> I presumed that it would be an environment variable but I could be
> wrong. I've found reference to the ENV and PASSENV arguments for
> xinetd.conf but no examples, and no indication of what auguments to
> use.
>
> In my script I have the following code:
>
> foreach (keys %ENV) { print "$_=$ENV{$_}\n";}
>
>
> but the only line I get back is:
>
> XINETD_LANG=en_US
I don't believe that xinetd tells the underlying processes anything
about IPs, since xinetd handles the network connection and as far as
the process is concerned, it's just filehandles.
--
Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx>
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