All services are standalone processes, that are started via start up code found in /etc/xinetd.d/

To add a standalone process put it's start up code in /etc/xinetd.d/

To remove a process from running at start-up or to stop it all together remove it's start-up code from /etc/xinetd.d/

Then restart xinetd : /etc/init.d/xinetd restart (if installed)

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Stop xinetd: /etc/init.d/xinetd stop (if installed)

Start xinetd /etc/init.d/xinetd start (if installed)

Verify that xinetd is running : /etc/init.d/xinetd status (if installed)

See what services are running : /sbin/service --status-all

To check Apache, which is running as a service, issue : /sbin/service httpd status

Services are stand alone and run no matter what run level the system is on?