Which services and processes are useful or not in /etc/inittab, /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/rc.tcpip

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Topics: AIX, System Admin The chrctcp command

The chrctcp command in not documented in AIX, but you can still use it to do nice things, especially when you are scripting. Some examples are:

To enable xntpd in /etc/rc.tcpip, and to start xntpd:

# chrctcp -S -a xntpd 

To disable xntpd in /etc/rc.tcpip, and to stop xntpd:

# chrctcp -S -d xntpd 

To enable xntpd in /etc/rc.tcpip, but not start xntpd:

# chrctcp -a xntpd 

To disable xntpd in /etc/rc.tcpip, but to not stop xntpd:

# chrctcp -d xntpd 

For info, since AIX 7.2 TL4 sendmail need to be started, as it's required to send email

Sendmail process is starting using

# startsrc -s sendmail -a "-bd -q30m"