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Re: Disabling inetd altogether?



On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:51:27PM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote:
> Mike Dresser wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Stefan Bellon wrote:
> 
> > > I'm running unstable and I'd like to ask, what is the recommended
> > > way of disabling inetd altogether without having to deinstall
> > > netbase as well (as it depends on netkit-inetd). I'm well aware
> > > that I can disable every service in the /etc/inetd.conf file, but
> > > why have it running then? Is there any recommendation of how to
> > > turn inetd off? Or should I use update-rc.d and remove the symlinks
> > > to /etc/init.d/inetd? Is there no neater way?
> 
> > how about an exit 0, in the top of /etc/init.d/inetd after shutting it
> > off?
> 
> Then I think
> 
> # update-rc.d -f inetd remove
> 
> is the neater solution.

It is - until you upgrade inetd. Then update-rc.d will think it hasn't
been installed, and obediently create all the symlinks.

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Karl E. Jørgensen
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