Disabling discard, daytime, time

2002-02-26 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, Are the internal services discard, daytime and time run from inetd critical to the system? I'm trying to close as many ports as possible on my machine, so I was wondering if anything would break if I'd commented them out. Many thanks for your help in advance! best regards, Balazs

Re: Disabling discard, daytime, time

2002-02-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Feb-2002 Balazs Javor wrote: Hi, Are the internal services discard, daytime and time run from inetd critical to the system? I'm trying to close as many ports as possible on my machine, so I was wondering if anything would break if I'd commented them out. You can actually

Re: Disabling discard, daytime, time

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:59:41AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | On 26-Feb-2002 Balazs Javor wrote: | Hi, | | Are the internal services discard, daytime and time run from | inetd critical to the system? | | I'm trying to close as many ports as possible on my machine, | so I was

Re: Disabling discard, daytime, time

2002-02-26 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Sean 'Shaleh' Perry quotation: You can actually uninstall inetd and have a working system. Well, a few points on this: - you can disable daytime, chargen, etc. without removing inetd; - inetd may be needed to run other things that you want to keep; - uninstalling netkit-inetd will

Re: Disabling discard, daytime, time

2002-02-26 Thread Patrick Kirk
My understanding is that nothing is lost if you comment out these lines and restart inetd. On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 18:57, Balazs Javor wrote: Hi, Are the internal services discard, daytime and time run from inetd critical to the system? I'm trying to close as many ports as possible on