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Feb 28, 2023

Using Systemd as a Socket Server for a Shell Command

In the past I’ve run socat as a daemon to run a shell command and send the output to a socket. It works well, but I wanted to try the systemd way of doing what “xinetd” has done in the past: Run a command and send the output to a socket.

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systemd xinetd Socket

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