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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:57:26 +0200
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
To:        Joaquin Menchaca <linuxuser@finnovative.net>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Q: Why is inetd disabled?
Message-ID:  <20050118155726.30d3f2b6@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
In-Reply-To: <41ECD139.5000508@finnovative.net>
References:  <41ECD139.5000508@finnovative.net>

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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:04:57 -0800
Joaquin Menchaca <linuxuser@finnovative.net> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Reading 4th ed. printed handbook, it mentions that inetd was disabled 
> for security purposes...
> 
> Why?  Just out of curiosity and trying to learn more...

By *default* it is disabled. That is because *you* want to tell the
system what to run and what not and there is no point in running
services that you don't need.


-- 
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"




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