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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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