Linux System Administration

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Chapter 2: Setting Up a Linux Multifunction Server

Removing pppconfig ...

Removing ppp ...

Stopping all PPP connections...done.

Make sure you double-check the commands you type. If you make a

typo, Debian will tell you that it can’t find the file in question. In this

case, simply re-enter apt-get, specifying just the name of that package.

Since you have made changes to the package database, you need to change the

scripts that start at boot time. Use the following commands to modify the startup

scripts:

# update-rc.d -f exim remove

Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/exim ...

# update-inetd --remove daytime

# update-inetd --remove telnet

# update-inetd --remove time

# update-inetd --remove finger

# update-inetd --remove talk

# update-inetd --remove ntalk

# update-inetd --remove ftp

# update-inetd --remove discard

Now you need to restart inetd, which is the server process for standard Internet ser-

vices. inetd generally starts at boot time, but because you have changed the services

on the system, you need to restart it so it can discover the services in its configura-

tion file. The inetd command accepts an argument that points to a configuration file

listing the services it provides. But if no argument is given on the command line,

inetd reads the configuration information from the /etc/inetd.conf file, which for our

purposes is fine. The update-inetd commands stored our changes in this ...