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Sherine wrote:
> and everyone else, I am using RH 5.0 and I had disabled IP Forwarding on
> the machine in the kernel but for each time I do a reboot I see the
> message "Disabling IP Forwarding", which means it was enabled.
No, it means that the init scripts are disabling it, regardless of
whether or not it was enabled by default.
> Also some lines in /etc/inetd.conf that I had commented out for eg the
> "netstat" "tftp" etc, so that I wouldn't be able to use those commands;
> well I still am able to netstat for eg.
The `netstat' entry in inetd.conf allows people to execute netstat
remotely, e.g. with `telnet your.host netstat'. The netstat command
will always work locally.
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