On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:25:28PM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote: > > I'm well aware that I can disable > every service in the /etc/inetd.conf file, but why have it running > then?
No reason at all. :) > 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? I don't know how much neater you want it to be; in the SysV init structure, we enable services by giving them "S" symlinks in the appropriate runlevel directories (/etc/rc2.d for example) and disable them with "K" symlinks; I assume this is what update-rc.d does, but I just manage that stuff by hand myself. At any rate, yes, that's how it's done: inetd is started from an init script in /etc/init.d, linked into /etc/rc#.d where # is your default runlevel (2 on most of my machines). If you don't want it to start, get rid of that symlink, however you choose to do it. To be neat, replace it with a K symlink instead. A trick I like to do is to replace S##foo with s##foo for future reference. init will ignore symlinks that start with a lowercase s, but if you ever want to bring back the service you'll have a record of where in the sequence it used to start. HTH, -mrj -- # Michael Jinks, IB # JFI/MRSEC/EFI Computing # University of Chicago # Reader! Think not that technical information ought not be called speech; -- Anonymous, "How to decrypt a DVD" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]