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Operating Systems Solaris Not able to disable finger & telnet command in Solaris 8 Post 303040577 by Scrutinizer on Friday 1st of November 2019 03:39:19 AM
Old 11-01-2019
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Originally Posted by amity
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As per my understanding we don't even need to run above kill command as finger command will only run when it is invoked through the command line as it happened when command got invoked due to that inetd command will reread the /etc/inetd.conf file and run the finger daemon and if I put the # in front of finger line in /etc/inetd.conf then it should not be invoked. But it is getting invoked. Further same thing is happring in Solaris 9 as well.
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You need to restart or reload the inetd/xinetd process so that it reads the new inetd.conf or inetd.d files.. You can also give a kill -HUP to the inetd/xinetd process.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

update-inetd

UPDATE-INETD(8) 						      rlinetd							   UPDATE-INETD(8)

NAME

       update-inetd - manage rlinetd (and inetd) configuration entries

SYNOPSIS

       update-inetd [options] --add ENTRY

       update-inetd [options] --remove SERVICE

       update-inetd [options] --enable SERVICE

       update-inetd [options] --disable SERVICE

DESCRIPTION

       update-inetd  is  a  rlinetd's compatibility script, which can be used to by various Debian post-installation scripts to manage services in
       rlinetd configuration files directory /etc/rlinetd.d.

       update-inetd will spawn update-inetd.real(8) for managing entries in /etc/inetd.conf file.  Please see update-inetd.real(8) for details.

ACTIONS

       --add ENTRY
	      Adds an entry, which should be a line in a inetd.conf(5) format.

       --remove SERVICE
	      Removes a service.

       --enable SERVICE
	      Enables a service.

       --disable SERVICE
	      Disables a service.

OPTIONS

       --version
	      Prints version information on standard output and exit successfully.

       --debug
	      Enables debugging mode. Note the option is also passed to update-inetd.real(8).

       Any other option is passed directly to update-inetd.real(8).

FILES

       /etc/rlinetd.conf, /etc/rlinetd.d/*, /etc/inetd.conf

SEE ALSO

       update-inetd.real(8), inetd.conf(5), rlinetd.conf(5), inetd2rlinetd(8)

AUTHOR

       Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>

Debian								 January 3rd, 2009						   UPDATE-INETD(8)
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