Heya --
I accidentally killed the original message, but someone had made
the point that /etc/services just dictates what port a given service is
listening on, and that disabling that port binding hasn't a thing to do
with whether the service is running at the time. That's inetd.
Absolutely
James -
I thought that too, but according to the man page for inetd.conf, the
first column of a service listing in inetd.conf has to be the correct name
from /etc/services.
With xinetd, you can specify that the service you want to run is unlisted,
ie missing from /etc/services, and it will run
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Raven Alder wrote:
> Heya --
>
> I accidentally killed the original message, but someone had made
> the point that /etc/services just dictates what port a given service is
> listening on, and that disabling that port binding hasn't a thing to do
> with whether the servic
