[luau] cron vs. anacron, xinetd useful?

[Tom_Gordon/RISE/HIDOE at notes.k12.hi.us]

If a tree falls in the woods and noone is around to hear it, does it fall? 
 You'd probably know when a service you use is no longer available.  If 
you don't know you need it then you don't need it.  Check what depends on 
xinetd.d.

You can see a list of ENABLED depended services by running this:

grep -li disable.*=.*no /etc/xinetd.d/*

This looks for all xinetd.d configs that are enabled.  You can also check 
out the directory to see which services are disabled that depend on it 
too.

Using redhat-config-services will keep you save in that it knows how these 
dependencies work (usually) and will warn you.

Tom


If I turn off xinetd, and later it turns out I need
it, how would I know?