From: Ronelle Van Niekerk (rvanniek@ecgd.gov.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 10:40:32 EDT
Thanks guys,
I will disable them as they are not used (unless for debugging) and are
quite outdated.
-Ronelle
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronelle Van Niekerk
> Sent: 23 July 2002 15:10
> To: HP (E-mail)
> Subject: echo, discard and chargen
>
> Hi guys,
>
> we've just recently had a security audit and one of the items
> mentioned about my HP-UX machines is that they have the services:
> echo, chargen and disgard enabled in the inetd.conf file.
>
> Fisrtly, what are they?
> And secondly, can I disable them, do I need them?
>
> TIA
> Ronelle van Niekerk
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