From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 11:21:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C16737BC8A for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:21:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hacker@bolingbroke.com) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA28840; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:21:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:21:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: Darryl Hoar Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inetd Question In-Reply-To: <001201bfd23f$c866dbe0$070101c0@ruraltel.net> 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, 9 Jun 2000, Darryl Hoar wrote: > If I have a machine that is just using PPP on a dialup to > provide internet access for my lan, do I need to run inetd ? inetd is commonly used to run telnet, FTP, and assorted other services. If you're using any of those, you need to run inetd. If not, then disable inetd. Check /etc/inetd.conf to see which services are run out of inetd. It's always a good idea to disable any unused services anyway. Ken Bolingbroke hacker@bolingbroke.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message