Ahh, I think I understand now. One followup question though Dave? If in the /etc/xinetd.d/ directory there is no telnet file, then does that mean that telnet is disabled? And the conversely, if there was a telnet file in there, could i then assume telnet was enabled? Thanks for taking the time to answer! Mikey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Sherman" <dsherman at real-time.com> To: "TC-LUG" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 7:18 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] ? about redhat > On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 07:00, Mike Partyka wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Was wondering if anyone could answer a question that I have had for some time now. > > > > In redhat your run level appropriate start scripts > > (rc.0, rc.1,rc.3,etc) are located in /etc/rc.d/rc.x, where x is your run-level. On my fairly bare-bone redhat installation, there are only about 18 start scripts in rc.3, but i am sure there are other daemons/services running, than are listed in this directory. I have checked my rc.local but are there other places i can check and if necessary stop certain daemons/services i don't want/need running? > > > > One more ?, looking in my /etc/services, almost nothign is pounded out, but yet telnet for example doesn't answer, where ultimately are these services turned on/off? > > First of all, there is a command-line front-end to the startup scripts > called 'chkconfig'. 'chkconfig --list' will show all configured services > on your machine, and their status as to whether they are to > automatically launch at boot or not, and also which runlevels they are > to run under. You can just enter 'chkconfig' to get a listing of > available options, but it is able to add new services, change the > current runlevel config of existing services, and also delete existing > services. > > 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. > > -- > Dave Sherman > MCSE, MCSA, CCNA > "If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code." > > > _______________________________________________ > 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