Not able to disable finger & telnet command in Solaris 8 Post: 303040583

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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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