I just found out about /etc/inetd.conf file, as I was trying to get my
talk deamon going. One thing is not clear to me:

Couple of months ago I used uucp. I accessed my new headless solaris box from
my linux box through the serial port to configure the solaris' video card, using uucp protocol.
But now I look at my /etc/inetd.conf file and I see that uucp line had been COMMENTED all the time. Meaning my uucp service was disabled.

I know for a fact that this wasn't true, cause I used uucp. What gives?

Another question:
Services such as ssh, http, smtp are not mentioned in inetd.conf. What file is responsible for starting these up?
Thanks.

Are you really sure you used UUCP? UUCP is an ancient protocol for transferring files between *nix sysstems (it stands for Unix to Unix CoPy). I imagine what you did was just hooked up a null modem cable to the solaris system and used the standard serial interface protocol to get a shell and edit the config file. Does that sound correct? I don't think it's even possible to do something like that via UUCP because of restrictions on what files can be copied.

I did

$ cu -l [device] -s [speed]

Isn't that what starts uucp?

I got the info here:http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Un...Consoles.shtml

But I guess that wasn't uucp after all, huh?