Re: Disabling inetd

[Truman Boyes <truman@research.suspicious.org>]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Claus wrote:

> Since all services that I installed on my server don't use inetd I was 
> wondering if I could just go ahead and disable it in /etc/rc.conf 
> (inetd=NO).  Do I have to watch out for important services that I might 
> loose that are installed by default?  I'm especially wondering about the 
> ident, comsat, daytime, time, rstatd/1-3, and rusersd/1-3 that are services 
> that haven't been commented out in /etc/inetd.conf.
> 
> Thanks
>    Claus

first let me say, this is a good way to think. in many cases you do not
really need nor want inetd running. but, before saying turn it off, maybe
you should think about what you need on that/those box(s).

ident is sometimes useful when running a mail server. comsat is useful if
you have local mail spools for your shell users. there is probably no need
to run daytime, time, nor any of the r-services.

if you end up running inetd for some reason, you may want to bind your
services to localhost or a private interface.

-truman