Re: Mysterious entries in daemon log, mail.log; should I worry?
Incoming from Ralph Katz:
> On 07/28/04 18:10, s. keeling wrote:
>
> >Try /etc/inetd.conf
> >.............^
>
> and
>
> On 07/28/04 16:50, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
>
> > This should be /etc/inetd.conf
>
> Since I removed the services, apt-get remove uw-imapd qpopper, I wasn't
> surprised to see /etc/inetd.conf had no entries for them:
>
> ~$ grep imap /etc/inetd.conf
> ~$ grep qpopper /etc/inetd.conf
>
> With the services removed, I'm not worried about a repeat, obviously. I
> just want to know what, in fact, happened. Perhaps I removed too much
> evidence by removing the services? (I didn't use --purge.)
Most of the boot scripts in /etc/init.d are as so:
if [ -e /sbin/blah ]; then
/sbin/blah
fi
So if /sbin/blah doesn't exist, nothing happens. Smiple? :-)
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