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Re: disabling and enabling services

From: - Tong - <mlist4suntong(at)yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Sep 14 2007 - 13:09:42 EDT

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:15:54 -0700, PETER EASTHOPE wrote:

> Some services listed in /etc/services, might never be intended
> to operate on a specific machine. bootps and finger are likely
> examples.
>
> In interest of security, is there any benefit in commenting out
> unused services?

Definitely.

See how to handle with such unnecessary services:

http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/distro/debian/deb20-SystemConfiguration/ar01s13.html

In brief, remove them or disable them.

To disable them, check out

update-rc.d usage
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/distro/debian/deb20-SystemConfiguration/ar01s04.html

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