Disable Telnet during backup....

[agoodrich]

Is there a way to disable telnet on my server while Im running a tape backup? This is a SCO Unix system.

 

[cdlvj]

Are you backuping locally?
Do the backup in single user mode, then noone will have access as tcp is not up and running.

The other option is tcp stop/start.

 

[PHV]

Before the backup:
cp /etc/inetd.conf /etc/inetd.conf.ori
grep -v telnetd /etc/inetd.conf.ori > /etc/inetd.conf
After the backup:
cp /etc/inetd.conf.ori /etc/inetd.conf

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[cdlvj]

need to re-initialize inetd if using PHV's method
kill -HUP <pid for inetd>

 

[agoodrich]

Thanks... I guess I will prolly use the stop tcp / start tcp method. Looks like the easiest way to do it.

 

[PHV]

If you use tcp stop you may encounter some side effect issues as all the networking will shutdown...

Hope This Helps, PH.
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