> > Hi, > > I'm new to Debian, so this may be a question that I'm only asking because > I'm not familiar with the Debian way, but.... > I've just installed slink onto a machine and although inetd is on the > system, it hasn't been started. Is this standard Debian policy for security > reasons? > > Either way is the normal way of starting it up? >
No. inetd should be running. On boot you should see: Starting inetd. As root you can run it by: /etc/init.d/netbase start when you run that, you should see inetd being started.