From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 20 1:10: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sign.chg.ru (sign.chg.ru [193.233.46.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D71151E2 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 01:09:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdmail@sign.chg.ru) Received: from localhost (fbsdmail@localhost) by sign.chg.ru (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA95698; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:09:14 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from fbsdmail@sign.chg.ru) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:09:13 +0400 (MSD) From: "Andrew L. Neporada" To: John Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd & security - some simple questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, John wrote: > Hello list > > A couple of newbie questions: > > [FreeBSD 3.2] > > The machine in question is on a permanent connection. I do not want it > to go down if at all possible. I am enabling certain services one by > one. > > In order to re-read inetd.conf, is it appropriate to kill -1 (inetd > process number)? Will it cause a reboot? > Yes. Sending signal 1 (aka HUP) to daemon will usually cause it to reread config files and will not cause a reboot ;-) > Are there any security issues in enabling talkd? > General rule: you should only run services, that you realy need. If this machine is your server, than I think it is better to disable it. And it is also a good idea to enable inetd logging (inetd -l). > Thanks > -- > John > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message