UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Awesome information. Thank you guys for the help. I am going to work on this later today so I will post back if I have additional questions. Thanks again for helping out a newbie.

OK one more quick question. When I look at the contents of the inetd.conf file a lot of the services I am looking for already have the "#" in front of them. Does this mean they are already disabled?

Example from my file....

#echo stream tcp6 nowait root internal
#echo dgram udp6 wait root internal
#discard stream tcp6 nowait root internal
#discard dgram udp6 wait root internal
#daytime stream tcp6 nowait root internal
#daytime dgram udp6 wait root internal
#chargen stream tcp6 nowait root internal
#chargen dgram udp6 wait root internal

yes. If you want to play safe, edit /etc/services and comment them out too.

Cool. Thanks again for all of the help.

Nooo!
Don't comment them out of /etc/services or you'll no longer be able to match the ports to names when connecting to these services on other machines. Scripts and apps could start producing errors as well if they expect those services.

certainly OP has to judge for himself. I do not use these services in my environment , including apps and scripts, therefore I can do this.