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

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 al

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 wa

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