Re: [Cooker] Can I disable unneeded services?

[Guy T. Rice]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, bobby dowling wrote:
> Turn off inetd?  I need to be able to ftp and telnet into my machine ...I 
> also like to use webmin on occasion.
> 
> Will disabling inetd affect this?

Yes, but then being able to telnet and ftp into your machine is a very bad
idea.  Look into ssh instead.  "ssh" and "scp" are a LOT niftier than
"telnet" and "ftp", in addition to not being gaping security holes...