Chapter 16. TELNET, TFTP, and xinetd
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Many network-enabled Linux applications don’t rely on themselves to provide restricted access or bind to a particular TCP port; instead they often offload a lot of this work to a program suite made just for this purpose: xinetd.
Managing xinetd Programs
The xinetd RPM is installed by default in Fedora Linux and uses /etc/xinetd.conf as its main configuration file. Fortunately you usually don’t have to edit this file, so day-to-day xinetd operation is frequently limited to only starting and stopping xinetd-managed applications.
Controlling xinetd
The scripts in the /etc/init.d directory control the starting and stopping of the xinetd daemon, and chkconfig controls ...
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