It only has it's uses if you are running any services through it. If you 
are going to # out all the services in /etc/inetd.conf, why not just 
shut inetd down alltogether? Seems logical to me.

Mark

Karl Breitner wrote:

> Hmm, I don't understand this discussion about disabling inetd
> it has it's uses. Just fire up your favourite text editor pointed at
> /etc/inetd.conf
> and insert a hashmark # in front of every line for a service you don't
> want to provide to the public.   
> 
> Best Rgards
> /Karl
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:49:46PM +0200, Juhan Kundla wrote:
>>
>>>Yikes! I guess, you didn't remove inetd that way, right? But how then?
>>>
>>>
>>As root:
>>/etc/init.d/inetd stop
>>rm /etc/rc?.d/S??inetd
>>
>>It will not be started again, but the K??inetd links will still be in
>>place so the next upgrade won't override your decisions.
>>
>>noah
>>
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