See Also
http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/gen/net/bsdrcmds/files/patch-rlogind8-aa

Add some info to man rlogind, useful for non programmers, as one
has to otherwise read the source.

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*** 9.1-RELEASE/src/libexec/rlogind/rlogind.8	Sun Jan 19 14:03:53 2014
--- new-generic/src/libexec/rlogind/rlogind.8	Sun Jan 19 14:29:44 2014
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*** 67,72 ****
--- 67,86 ----
  Disable keep-alive messages.
  .El
  .Pp
+ .Nm
+ can not be invoked direct (eg by a shell calling /usr/libexec/rlogind 
+ .\" (unlike some other daemons eg ssh, to allow a faster response)
+ .\" (as getpeername() returns: 
+ .\" rlogind: Can't get peer name of remote host: No such file or directory.
+ ), instead 
+ .Nm
+ is started on demand from an 
+ .Xr inetd.conf 8 
+ line, eg
+ .in +2
+ login stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/rlogind rlogind -D
+ .in -2
+ .Pp
  The
  .Nm
  utility listens for service requests at the port indicated in