Re: Q: Why is inetd disabled?

Ion-Mihai Tetcu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.newbies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:04:57 -0800
Joaquin Menchaca <[email protected]> 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.


-- 
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"


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