hi

I've deactivated the inetd because it opens
too many services (ftp, telnet, finger ...like yast says) on startup.

how do I activate ftp, telnet, finger manually?


thanx a lot

In your startup scripts (the location of which depends on your distro) you need to explicitly start the daemons, so for ftp you would probably just have a ftpd line, for telnet you'd probably run in.telnetd and so on... Have a look at the line which is executed by inetd (in /etc/inetd.conf [of xinetd.conf]) and check the man page for any options that are useful for you.

Post back with the distro you are using and I'm sure someone will be able to tell you the best startup script to modify.

HTH

Jamie...

PS - You realise you could just have removed the lines from inetd.conf to close those services off!!??

I'm using suse 6.4

yes, I realized to modify the inetd.conf.
those services are closed now.

but what if I would have to transfer some data
via ftp? what command do I use to start that service, which command to shut it down again?

If you just want to start the service for a short time, the command line for the ftp-server is the same as stated in the inetd.conf file.
You might have to add some options. If I want to start my proftp server manually I would have to set the Servertype to standalone in the config file.
At the command line I then would just have to type

# proftpd

Should be the same for all the other services.
To get rid of the servers again, get their process id by issuing

# ps ax

and kill them:

kill "process-id" (no quotes)

HTH, Steave.