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1 Ubuntu Manpage: xinetd.conf - Extended Internet Services Daemon ...
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man5/xinetd.conf.5.html
xinetd.conf is the configuration file that determines the services provided by xinetd. Any line whose first non-white-space character is a '#' is considered a comment line. Empty lines are ignored. The file contains entries of the form: service <service_name> { <attribute> <assign_op> <value> <value> ... ... } The assignment ...
2 Ubuntu Manpage: xinetd - the extended Internet services daemon
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man8/xinetd.8.html
Instead of having such servers started at system initialization time, and be dormant until a connection request arrives, xinetd is the only daemon process started and it listens on all service ports for the services listed in its configuration file. When a request comes in, xinetd starts the appropriate server. Because of the way it ...
3 Where can I find my inetd.conf or xinetd.conf? - Ask Ubuntu
https://askubuntu.com/questions/571680/where-can-i-find-my-inetd-conf-or-xinetd-conf
Jan 9, 2015 - From the inetd man page. Upon execution, inetd reads its configuration information from a configuration file which, by default, is /etc/inetd.conf. If it's not there, create it there as it's the default. and next time you look for something use locate inetd ...
4 [ubuntu] Where has inetd.conf gone? - Ubuntu Forums
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1633430
Nov 29, 2010 - Since neither of these configuration files exists in /etc anymore, I can only assume their function has been taken over by some other script or process to be run at startup. With earlier versions ... You'll also get an /etc/xinetd.conf file that essentially tells xinetd to traverse the xinetd.d directory. The original inetd ...
5 [SOLVED] is there a xinetd.conf alternative for ubuntu ...
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/is-there-a-xinetd-conf-alternative-for-ubuntu-788236/
Feb 10, 2010 - 3 posts - 3 authors
I want to look into disabling things like chargen, chargen-udp, daytime, daytime-udp, echo etc... I have found a manual at: http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linu...er.html?page=2 which points me towards the xinetd.conf file. I cant seem to find it, im using ubuntu 8.10 LTS. Should I be looking else where?
6 Howto: configure xinetd service under Linux or UNIX systems - nixCraft
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-how-do-i-configure-xinetd-service/
Instead of having such servers started at system initialization time, and be dormant until a connection request arrives, xinetd is he only daemon process started and it listens on all service ports for the services listed in its configuration file. When a request comes in, xinetd starts the appropriate server. Because of the way it ...
7 networking - Is Super server (inted / xinetd/... ) comes with ...
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/186579/is-super-server-inted-xinetd-comes-with-ubuntu-default
Feb 24, 2015 - On Ubuntu, Upstart takes care of starting services. Restarting services as inetd can do is often not needed as the programs like sshd just start and run in the background, instead of being restarted again and again. If you install some serial ports you might have to install (x)inetd to allow login over a serial line ...
8 How to start Xinetd Service in LINUX - Symantec Support
https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH163916.html
Oct 21, 2013 - Instead of having such servers started at system initialization time, and be dormant until a connection request arrives, xinetd is the only daemon process started and it listens on all service ports for the services listed in its configuration file. When a request comes in, xinetd starts the appropriate server.
9 xinetd Configuration Files
https://www.centos.org/docs/rhel-rg-en-3/s1-tcpwrappers-xinetd-config.html
Often, both the log_on_success and log_on_failure settings in /etc/xinetd.conf are further modified in the service-specific log files. For this reason, more information may appear in a given service's log than the /etc/xinetd.conf file may indicate. Refer to Section 16.4.3.1 Logging Options for more about logging options.
10 17.4.2. The /etc/xinetd.d/ Directory - Red Hat Customer Portal
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/4/html/Reference_Guide/s2-tcpwrappers-xinetd-config-files.html
For any changes to take effect, the administrator must restart the xinetd service. The format of files in the /etc/xinetd.d/ directory use the same conventions as /etc/xinetd.conf . The primary reason the configuration for each service is stored in a separate file is to make customization easier and less likely to effect other services.
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