From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 14:29:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501E337B401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:29:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4555243F75 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:29:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1046903374.cff80b@mired.org) Received: (qmail 73567 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2003 22:29:34 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 28 Feb 2003 22:29:34 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15967.58061.762436.884175@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:29:33 -0600 To: Aaron Walker Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disabling inetd & sendmail In-Reply-To: <1046470874.2149.4.camel@ka0ttic> References: <1046470874.2149.4.camel@ka0ttic> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.70 (Pensive) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <1046470874.2149.4.camel@ka0ttic>, Aaron Walker typed: > I am trying to disable inetd and sendmail so that they do not start up > when my router/firewall boots up. I have the following in /etc/rc.conf > but it doesnt do any good: > inetd_enable="NO" > sendmail_enable="NO" > how do I go about disabling these? inetd_enable is fine as "NO". If you're still seeing inetd after changing this and rebooting, cut and paste the text because there's probably a typo. sendmail_enable needs to be "NONE", otherwise it starts sendmail with different sets of flags. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message