Re: A question about some network services

[Mark Drummond <bofh@cogeco.ca>]

It only has it's uses if you are running any services through it. If you 
are going to # out all the services in /etc/inetd.conf, why not just 
shut inetd down alltogether? Seems logical to me.

Mark

Karl Breitner wrote:

> Hmm, I don't understand this discussion about disabling inetd
> it has it's uses. Just fire up your favourite text editor pointed at
> /etc/inetd.conf
> and insert a hashmark # in front of every line for a service you don't
> want to provide to the public.   
>
> Best Rgards
> /Karl
>
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> "Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:49:46PM +0200, Juhan Kundla wrote:
> >
> > > Yikes! I guess, you didn't remove inetd that way, right? But how then?
> > As root:
> > /etc/init.d/inetd stop
> > rm /etc/rc?.d/S??inetd
> >
> > It will not be started again, but the K??inetd links will still be in
> > place so the next upgrade won't override your decisions.
> >
> > noah
> >
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