Cannot Disable xinetd Service

From: Paul D (please_reply_to_newsgroup_at_something.com)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:01:35 -0000

 Hi all!

I hope you can help me with this baffling problem.

I am running RHEL3.3 with all available updates.

I configured the rsyncd daemon with a simple /etc/rsyncd.conf file
(containing only the module name and directory path) to share a directory,
let's say...

[data]
path = /data

I configured its runlevels using the following:
chkconfig --level 123456 rsyncd on

and checked it using chkconfig --list

Everything was sweet.

Now I wish to disable rsyncd. I ran the following command:
chkconfig --level 123456 rsyncd off

I checked /etc/xinet.d/rsyncd to verify that disable = yes.

I restarted xinetd by running:
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart

However, netstat -tuan | grep 873 shows that the port is still listening.

I rebooted the machine, and the problem is not resolved.

Does anyone know what is going on here? I'm completely confused!
How do I trace where rsyncd is being invoked?

Thank you in advance for your kind assistance!!

Kind regards
Hal