[olug] services

[mesc]

Oh ok,I just had ftp & telnet & auth uncommented in /etc/inetd.conf and I
commented out ftp & telnet so the only service I should have running now is
auth,would that be right? I'm not in linux now so I can't try it.Thank you for
explaining it to me.

            Thanks again,Gary Martin

Daniel Pfile wrote:

> well, ps aux | wc -l will get you the number of processes running on your
> machine, not just services. I have 102 procs right now, and I'm not
> running much in the way of services.
>
> When you commented out the stuff in inetd.conf, did you restart inetd? try
> giving it a kill -HUP <inetd's pid>; then see if that works. commenting
> things out of /etc/services isn't needed. that just helps your os map the
> proper name of the service to the port it's running on, it's more like a
> database.
>
> for things that run at startup (not in inetd, like apache) you can remove
> the SxxServiceName file (xx being the number that dictates when the
> service starts in relation to other services, eg, 01 first, 99 last). Make
> sure you only remove things you're sure you don't need, or are sure are
> services. You can also remove their respective KxxServiceName files (for
> kill, instead of start) so thing's aren't run at shutdown to stop them
> anymore. You can re-enable them again by making a symlink in that rcX.d
> dir to the script in init.d again. You can also gracefully shutdown the
> services by using that init.d script, so you don't have to
> reboot. Something I do often, is disable the service in the rc dir, but
> enable/disable it when needed via the init.d scripts. I've also written a
> few custom init.d scripts for apps that don't come with them, it's pretty
> simple using the included utility scripts, if you know some shell
> scripting that is. Oh yah, you may hear those init scripts called SysV
> init scripts, there are editors for SysV init scripts out there, and I bet
> your distro has one. If you're on redhat, try linuxconf. There's lots more
> to knowing how init scripts work, but I'll shut up now.
>
> Good luck
>
> | Daniel Pfile        | I'm too cool for a signature |
> | pfiled at marietta.edu |                              |
>
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, mesc wrote:
>
> > I am trying to turn off sevices I don't need so I issued this command>ps
> > aux | wc -l and it said I had 43 services running. Then I issued netstat
> > -na --ip to  see what ports were being used.I then tried commenting out
> > the services according to the ports that were listening by commenting
> > them out in /etc/inetd.conf when that didn't shut them off I tried
> > commenting them out in /etc/services...still no luck.How would I go
> > about shutting them off?
> >
> >                 Thank you,Gary Martin
> >
> >
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