Why inetd & xinetd in 10.2? How do I kill inetd?

[michaelsanford]

I noticed that both inetd and xinetd are running on 10.2.4 even though inetd doesn't have any services configured.

Everything in /etc/inetd.conf is commented out, and all my services are configured in /etc/xinetd.d/<service>

How do I prevent inetd from loading at startup? I'd like to keep all the potential holes plugged, and this is definately one of them.

 

[LordOphidian]

I disabled mine by commenting out a line in one of the startup-items, but it has been a while since I did it and I can't remember which file it was. You might try running a grep for it:

$ grep -r 'inetd' /System/Library/StartupItems/

 

[michaelsanford]

thanks.