Turn off inetd? I need to be able to ftp and telnet into my machine ...I
also like to use webmin on occasion.
Will disabling inetd affect this?
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>On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, bobby dowling wrote:
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>Um, that's hard to say because it depends on what you need. I would
>definatelty disable inetd if you can beacuse it's a security risk. The
>only absolutely necessary thing to have running is xfs if you use X unless
>you want to set up X not to use a fontserver. I would also recommend
>running random and syslogd (kind of important). keytable, network, sound,
>and crond are also important. Othrewise yo can probably get away with
>turning it off.
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