[olug] uneeded services

[Vincent]

John Kennedy wrote:
> 
> Gary,
> Try /etc/services.  Just comment out the services, don't delete
> them...The file can also serve as a good reference to commom port uses...
> John

That's probably not a good way to go about it..

-from the services man page:

       services is a plain ASCII file providing a mapping between
       friendly textual names for internet  services,  and  their
       underlying assigned port numbers and protocol types. Every
       networking program should look into this file to  get  the
       port number (and protocol) for its service.
       The  presence of  an  entry for a service in the services
       file does not necessarily mean that the  service  is  cur­
       rently  running  on the machine.

If that actually worked, it's because commenting these out (hopefully) broke the
configuration.  You should be making changes in your system's initialization. 
Here's a link or two that will walk you through doing this type of thing:

http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/linux.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/focus/linux/articles/linux-bastille.html?&_ref=265046156

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