Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 09:55:23 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Francisco Reyes <reyes01@ibm.net> Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Where are daemons started & books on system adminstration? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960517094728.286H-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199605170336.DAA110139@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net>
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On Thu, 16 May 1996, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> When Freebsd boots I have noticed that it starts certain daemons. I don't
Everything begins with /etc/rc which is a shell script. It pulls
in /etc/sysconfig which has a bunch of variables controlling what
daemons are started and how. It also pulls in some other
/etc/rc.* scripts.
One of the daemons started is inted, which is a "super daemon"
whos purpose is to listen to a bunch of ports and start up
appropriate daemons when a contact is made. You can disable most
services by simply commenting them out in /etc/inetd.conf and
restarting inetd by sending it a HUP signal, eg:
jfieber:~ $ ps ax | grep inetd
128 ?? Is 0:00.93 inetd
479 p1 S+ 0:00.07 grep inetd
jfieber:~ $ kill -HUP 128
jfieber:~ $
> I would also appreciate suggestions with Unix administration books.
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/bibliography.html
And specifically,
* Nemeth, Evi. Unix System Administration Handbook. 2nd ed.
Prentice Hall, 1995.
ISBN 0131510517
Also,
* Garfinkel, Simson. Practical Unix Security. O'Reilly &
Associates, Inc., 1991.
-john
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