On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:39:02AM -0800, Ted Cabeen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > In message <[🔎] 20011208192219.GA21336@auctionwatch.com>, Petro writes: > >On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:40:06AM -0800, mdevin@ozemail.com.au wrote: > >> After reading a previous thread about stopping services from listening > >> on certains ports, I decided to investigate things a little further for > >> my system. > >> So, what I can figure out is that it seems that I have only the > >> following daemons listening: postfix, sshd, cupsd, XF86_SVGA, portmap. > >> I have only deliberately decided to run postfix, sshd and cupsd. > >> Everything in /etc/inetd.conf is hashed out. In fact I renamed the file > >> so that it is not accessed at all. > > > > Better just not to start inetd at all. man inetd and update-rc.d > > Once thing to keep in mind when turning off services is to use update-rc.d > correctly. It's not a good idea to turn off services using > "update-rc.d -f remove" because that completely removes the links for a > package. If the links are completely removed, then when the package is > upgraded the links will be restored and the service will start up again at > the next reboot. The correct way to turn off a service is to remove all of > the links except for one Kill link. That way the service won't start and > won't be restarted when the service is upgraded. > Thanks for that. I will change things so that the links are as you say. When you say: leave one kill link; Do you just leave the kill link in rc6.d or do you put a kill link in every one of rc1.d - rc6.d, or doesn't it matter so long as there is at least one. Thanks. Mark.
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