1) Port 98 is 'LinuxConf' so you can admin your system from a web browser
(after enabling remote access)
2) Portmapper is used to manage RPC services - which you probably want
3) Only the first (last?) copy counts so you need exactly one /etc/services
line saying
linuxconf 98/tcp
and one /etc/inetd.conf line saying
linuxconf stream tcp wait root ...
4) Yes, you edit /etc/inetd.conf to enable/disable inetd-started services
'man inetd' says you can use SIGHUP to cause it to reread the service
list
killall -HUP inetd
or, as you suggested, you can
/etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart
> I ran a port scan on my RH-6.1 linux box and have a couple of questions:
>
> 1) The scan turned up a hit on port 98, but I can't find an associated
> service. Any idea what this is, or (better) how I should find out?
>
> 2) I see ports defined in /etc/services for
> 'sunrpc 111/[tpc|udp] portmapper' What uses this and do I want to have
> it open?
>
> 3) I saw several apparently duplicate entries at the end of /etc/services
> and /etc/inetd.conf for 'linuxconf' -- how should these look?
>
> 4) If I want to turn an inetd service on or off, is editing
> '/etc/inetd.conf' the correct way to do it, followed, I suppose, by:
> '# /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart'?
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