Please excuse my previous post.


> Isn't it possibly slightly less secure to run telnet on a port >= 1024?
If
> inetd dies for some reason, a user could setup their on telnetd on that
> port and grab passwords or whatever. Of course, inetd shouldn't be dying,
> but it's happened to me before (recently, in fact... egcs codegen bug,
> perhaps?)

Could you use a job to watch inetd, and then run shutdown -k now
and restart inetd or would a reboot be better?
BA-


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