Marty wrote:
The inetd man page gives an example for use with a specific service: /etc/hosts.deny: in.tftpd: ALL: (/usr/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h | \ /usr/bin/mail -s %d-%h root) &
Correction -- it's in the hosts.deny man page. As others have already pointed out, sshd must be configured to start via inetd.