[olug] uneeded services

[Tim Russell]

Oh my, I totally missed that!  It should have been inetd.conf.  Good call.

Some network services, like portmap and sendmail, run on their own, not out
of inetd.  Those will have to be shut down through the initscripts changes I
mentioned before.

Tim #1

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent" <vraffensberger at home.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] uneeded services


> 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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