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From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
To: Joaquin Menchaca <linuxuser@finnovative.net>
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Subject: Re: Q: Why is inetd disabled?
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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.


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IOnut
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