[lug] Re: xinetd config (D. Stimits)

[D. Stimits]

One of those handy little tools that gets a permanent addition to the
wetware.

"Gary Frerking (TurboPower)" wrote:
> 
> >> I tested to be sure port 113 was truly dead via telnet to it on the
> machine I was logging in from. Does anyone know of another trick so I can
> force identd to be used or else to deny all connection based services? <<
> 
> As with most other things in Unix, there are several ways to do it.
> 
> With Redhat, I generally use the chkconfig command line utility to shut
> things off.
> 
>   chkconfig --list
> 
> will list all of your services, and their status at each run level (and
> there's a section at the bottom of the listing that shows the status of
> xinetd based services.
> 
> You can also turn services on and off with chkconfig too:
> 
> For xinetd services, something like:
> 
>   chkconfig telnet off
> 
> will do it I think (going from memory, check the help or man page to be
> sure).
> 
> And for daemons, you specify the run level:
> 
>   chkconfig sendmail 234 off
> 
> (again, going from memory).
> 
> Another tool that can turn off network daemons is ntsysv
> 
> Instead of using telnet to verify ports being shut, you might try a port
> scanning tool like nmap -- it's a lot easier, and is more thorough.
> 
> -- Gary
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