I mean, if I turn off xinetd, and later I install something that won't work without it, how would I know (besides RTFM)? (Naturally I always RTFM, but I still make mistakes.) Presumably it won't work, but will it bomb in some identifiable characteristic fashion, or will I just have to scratchmy head and RTFM some more until I have an epiphany? TB
----- Original Message ----- From: Tom_Gordon/RISE/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, October 31, 2003 3:07 pm Subject: [despammed] Re: [luau] cron vs. anacron, xinetd useful? > If a tree falls in the woods and noone is around to hear it, does > it fall? > You'd probably know when a service you use is no longer > available. If > you don't know you need it then you don't need it. Check what > depends on > xinetd.d. > > You can see a list of ENABLED depended services by running this: > > grep -li disable.*=.*no /etc/xinetd.d/* > > This looks for all xinetd.d configs that are enabled. You can > also check > out the directory to see which services are disabled that depend > on it > too. > > Using redhat-config-services will keep you save in that it knows > how these > dependencies work (usually) and will warn you. > > Tom > > > If I turn off xinetd, and later it turns out I need > it, how would I know?
