From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 20 0:26:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nexus.plymovent.se (nexus.plymovent.se [212.247.77.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02E6151B9 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 00:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se) Received: from tu ([192.168.1.21]) by nexus.plymovent.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA19135; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:33:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se) From: "Thomas Uhrfelt" To: "John" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: inetd & security - some simple questions Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:24:47 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To restart inetd do a kill -HUP (inetd processnumber) This will cause inetd to restart and re-read its configurationfile. And no, it won't reboot your computer - after all .. this isn't Windows 95 ;-). Regards, Thomas Uhrfelt > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of John > Sent: den 20 augusti 1999 09:00 > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: inetd & security - some simple questions > > > Hello list > > A couple of newbie questions: > > [FreeBSD 3.2] > > The machine in question is on a permanent connection. I do not want it > to go down if at all possible. I am enabling certain services one by > one. > > In order to re-read inetd.conf, is it appropriate to kill -1 (inetd > process number)? Will it cause a reboot? > > Are there any security issues in enabling talkd? > > Thanks > -- > John > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message