I just need a clearfication
Dose xinetd control all the servers running on the machine for example vsftpd, httpd, etc so if i stop xinetd, /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd stop, it will stop all the server it controls.
My question is what if i only want to stop ftp server but leave httpd up and running what would i do? or how to do that?

Have a look in /etc/xinetd.conf and the files in /etc/xinetd.d/* to see what is controlled by xinetd. It's likely that your ftp server is controlled by xinetd but your http server isn't. Checking those files will confirm this.

If your http server was controlled by xinetd, you could modify /etc/xinetd.d/httpd (I'm not sure that's the correct name) and set disable to yes, then restart xinetd.

Steve thx for your response
i have one more comment on what you told me to do i checked my /etc/xinetd and beside vsftpd it also include number of other services that it xinetd control like "time, daytime, klogin and punch of the services" so again my question is if i want to stop my vsftpd does that means i have to stop everything esle under /etc/xinetd? is this is the right way to stop do it? i remmeber in FC4 there was a seprate service for each server running on the server that you contral by using "service vsftpd stop" or "start" can i still do that in FC5? what is the signifficant of using xinetd or not?

I am sorry for the long comment question thing but i just want to know what i am doing and if i am doing it tyhe right way


Thanks

Xinetd is really about adding additional security & logging properties etc. to services. As usual, if you do not need it, there is really no reason to use it.

You can add an option "disabled = yes" in xinetd.conf or e.g. /etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd to disable a service controlled by xinetd. Xinetd does not start nor stop services per se. Note that the directory /etc/xinetd.d/ is just a "symlink" read by xinetd.conf, i.e. you can put everything within that directory directly to xinetd.conf, if you want.

Man xinetd.conf gives rather detailed instructions to configure different options.

As mentioned above, you can set disable to yes for ftp and restart xinetd. Doing this will stop ftp but it doesn't affect anything else under xinetd except during the restart. vsftpd doesn't have to be run out of xinetd and the man page for vsftpd on my system recommends running it stand-alone. You need to modify the vsftpd.conf file to make sure that listen=no isn't included (listen=yes is the default on my system).

IIRC, on FC4 the default location for vsftpd.conf file was under /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf when run out of xinetd and under /etc/vsftpd.conf when run stand-alone. However you can symlink from one location to the other or use command line options to change where vsftpd looks for the file.