Jima, nice tip, thanks for the info. I will use chkconfig from now on. Mikey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jima" <jima at beer.tclug.org> To: "TCLUG" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 7:33 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] ? about redhat > On 11 Mar 2003, Dave Sherman wrote: > > As to your telnet question, several services run under the blanket of > > inetd (in RedHat 8 they have changed to xinetd, which is both more > > powerful and flexible). xinetd is configured through its files in /etc, > > with one master file (with just a few default rules) xinetd.conf, plus a > > whole directory of additional specific files in /etc/xinetd.d/, one file > > per service. If you want to find telnet, look in /etc/xinetd.d/ for a > > file called telnet. > > Actually, RedHat switched to xinetd back in 7.0. I can only hope that > was a typo. :) > Also, chkconfig can be used to enable/disable xinetd services, too: > > # chkconfig telnet on > > You don't need (get) to specify a runlevel, as it'll apply to any > runlevels xinetd is activated in. > > Jima > > P.S.: `ntsysv` is a nice feature, but it only applies the changes to the > current runlevel. If you change runlevels, the services you shut off > before will pop back up. Bad mojo. Use `chkconfig` instead. > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list