tcpserver 1 user commands nosh tcpserver listen for incoming TCP connections and spawn a child per conection tcpserver -O -P -q -Q -R -H -d -b backlog -v -D -o -l localname -c connlimit -U -B banner host port next-prog tcpserver is a utility that opens a TCP socket bound to host and port, and loops forever, accepting TCP connections and (for each such connection) spawning next-prog, closing the listening socket in the child process and setting the connected socket as the child process' standard input and standard output. It devolves to a combination of tcp-socket-listen1, tcp-socket-accept1, line-banner1, and setuidgid_fromenv1. next-prog may contain its own command line options, which tcpserver will ignore. The -O, -P, -q, -Q, -H, -R, and -d command-line options (which originate with the Bernstein tool by this name) simply would enact what are already the defaults, are thus present solely for compatibility, and are thus ignored. The -b command-line option is passed through to tcp-socket-listen, with any of its option arguments. The -v, -D, -o -l, and -c options are passed through to tcp-socket-accept, with any of their option arguments. The -U command-line option causes setuidgid-fromenv to be invoked. The -B banner command-line option causes line-banner to be invoked, with banner as the banner. The options that permit attackers to run IDENT and DNS servers and inject attacker-supplied data into the server process' environment, are expressly not supported. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard