[ILUG] Shutting down ports

Gavin McCullagh gavin at fiachra.ucd.ie
Wed Jan 9 13:23:53 GMT 2002


On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Kenn Humborg wrote:

> More misinformation...
> 
> It is a common misconception that removing lines from /etc/services
> disables stuff.
> 
> inetd does not listen on ports according to the /etc/services file.
> It listens on the ports that have entries in /etc/inetd.conf.

Apologies.  Thanks for correcting that Kenn.

Gavin






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