If a tree falls in the woods and noone is around to hear it, does it fall? You'd probably know when a service you use is no longer available. If you don't know you need it then you don't need it. Check what depends on xinetd.d.
You can see a list of ENABLED depended services by running this: grep -li disable.*=.*no /etc/xinetd.d/* This looks for all xinetd.d configs that are enabled. You can also check out the directory to see which services are disabled that depend on it too. Using redhat-config-services will keep you save in that it knows how these dependencies work (usually) and will warn you. Tom If I turn off xinetd, and later it turns out I need it, how would I know?