Re: What are these services ?

From: Ashok Aiyar (aiyar@ebv.mimnet.northwestern.edu)
Date: 12/18/01 

From: Ashok Aiyar <aiyar@ebv.mimnet.northwestern.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 2001 04:32:39 GMT

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 03:30:03 +0000 (UTC),
    Walter Dnes (waltdnes@waltdnes.org) wrote:

> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 295 Dec 16 00:46 chargen
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 315 Dec 16 00:46 chargen-udp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 295 Dec 16 00:46 daytime
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 315 Dec 16 00:46 daytime-udp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 287 Dec 16 00:46 echo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 306 Dec 16 00:46 echo-udp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 319 Dec 16 00:46 time
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 315 Dec 16 00:46 time-udp
>
> They're all set as "disable = yes", and my machine seems to be
> functioning properly, so I'm thinking of un-installing the associated
> RPM's.

They are services that are internal to xinetd. inetd also has
internal support for chargen, echo and daytime. I am not sure whether
it support time.

Anyway to uninstall the rpms associated with these services, you will
have to uninstall xinetd.

Later,
Ashok 

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Ashok Aiyar
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