Solaris

I have been instructed to disable the finger service for our Solaris 10 box. However when I input #svcadm disable finger I receive: "svcadm: Pattern 'finger' does not match any instances. I have also tried to edit the inetd config file and comment out the finger part but Solaris has basically rendered this file useless as all disabling/enabling services must be done through svcadm.

All help/suggestions appreciated.

Can you post output of:

Code:

svcs -a | grep finger

Nothing is returned:

Code:

#svcs -a | grep finger
#

Right. And this?

Code:

inetadm -l | grep finger

I get nothing returned for that as well:

Code:

inetadm -l | grep finger
Usage:
  inetadm
  inetadm -?
  inetadm -l {FMRI | pattern}...
  inetadm -e {FMRI | pattern}...
  inetadm -d {FMRI | pattern}...
  inetadm -m {FMRI | pattern}... {name=value}...
  inetadm -M {name=value}...

Sorry, wrong syntax. It should be

Code:

inetadm | grep finger

Anyway I just logged into a Solaris box to check it and both "svcs -a | grep finger" and "inetadm | grep finger" return finger FMRI.

Yeah I changed it to the corrected syntax and I still receive nothing. Idk how to disable this service if the system cannot even find it in the first place.