Thursday, August 31, 2000, 11:07:51 AM, you wrote:
JW> Port scanning is a good idea, otherwise look and see what's not commented
JW> out in /etc/inetd.conf
JW> JW
JW> At 09:11 AM 8/31/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>>John Aldrich wrote:
>>
>> > Finally, if you do use "ps aux | grep <service>" you can be
>> > reasonably certain that said service IS running. As for
>> > starting and stopping from the command line, you MAY have
>> > luck with /etc/rc.d/init.d/<service> start or <service>
>> > stop or <service> restart. IF the <service> you want is in
>> > there.
>>
>>John- What about the inetd services? A ps won't show them. I was hoping
>>someone would step up and give a way to check those. I guess a
>>portscanning software would do it? Other than that at least look at the
>>file /etc/inetd.conf and make sure that the needed services are uncommented.
>>
>>Bret
The services in inetd are NOT running unless someone is using them. Inetd
spawns the service when it sees requests on the ports specified in
inetd.conf. Once a connection is made the process should show up in ps but I
at least know it does in top.
Have fun,
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