On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:30:29PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > >> Add exit 0 at the top of /etc/init.d/inetd > > That only helps if the init script is the only way to start inetd. > > If you want to disable it for security reasons, and want to make sure > > it can't start even by accident, then that's not good enough. > I can only think of two ways it could accidentally started are: > * big bug: [...] > * root is silly and executes /usr/sbin/inetd directly. If you're really worried about these, you should also be worried about someone calling /usr/sbin/inetd with a file other than /etc/inetd.conf as an argument, and starting up whatever services they might happen to want, whether /etc/inetd.conf exists or not. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.''
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