Disabling Daemons Solaris 8 1

[sproot]

I'm sure this is an easy one: How do I disable redundant services?

I've #'d them out in inetd.conf, which I guess (hope!) stops people connecting to them (I've also installed ssh + tcp wrappers), but I'd like to disable them.

I'm talking about things like finger, ftp, telnet etc.

TIA
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[bfitzmai]

Run "pkill -HUP inetd". Since you commented out the services that you want to disable, the pkill command will stop and restart the inetd daemon. Just tried it with ftp to make sure it works.

 

[sproot]

Will that actually disable eg the ftpd?

Sadly I'm from planet windows, I thought that it would run continuously. It sounds like you're saying it's only started by inetd when a connection requests it?

If so, Thanks - I'll do it now

 

[bfitzmai]

Daemon inetd controls services like telnet, ftp, tftp etc. etc. etc. When you comment out the services in /etc/inetd.conf, you in a sense disable the service because the service daemon will not be able to start. Daemons like ftp, tftp will only run when called... Once the service is exited, the daemon is halted.