Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 16:11:32 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Daniel Blankensteiner <db@traceroute.dk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting and inetd Message-ID: <20020414141130.GA21469@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <000b01c1e3b2$40db6b10$6800a8c0@rafter> References: <000b01c1e3b2$40db6b10$6800a8c0@rafter>
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:45:27PM +0200, Daniel Blankensteiner wrote: > Hi again > > Still using FreeBSD 4.4 on a i386 :-) > > When FreeBSD boots it read scripts and other files from: > /usr/local/etc/rc.d (all *.sh files) > /etc/rc (and all rc.* files) > /boot > right? are there more? > > So a service like sendmail or sshd can be started at boot time by any of > these files, but when you killall -HUP inetd. Then you close all services > and only start them listed (not #'ed) in /etc/inetd.conf? > But when I restart inetd, nothing happens, all services are still running? > (and I have #'ed all services in /etc/inetd.conf). You seem to have misunderstood how inetd works. /etc/inetd.conf determines what ports inetd will listen on. When there is an incoming connection on one of the ports inetd listens on it will start a new process to handle that connection. Inetd does not start any processes at boot time, but only when there is an incoming connection. Some services are not handled by inetd but instead by their own daemons who listen for incoming connections themselves. Sshd is one such program, and I believe sendmail is another. These are not affected by any changes you make to /etc/inetd.conf These daemons are usually started through one of the rc* files. (Startup behaviour is normally determined by a xxx_enable variable in /etc/rc.conf for daemons that are part of the base system, or by a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for programs installed through ports/packages.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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