[97074] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat bugs???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Hardin)
Sat Oct 31 12:57:55 1998
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:56:41 -0800 (PST)
From: "John D. Hardin" <jhardin@wolfenet.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
cc: Jesper Pedersen <blackie@imada.ou.dk>
In-Reply-To: <363A04E3.62FBFA79@dinamicmultimedia.es>
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On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Leo wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > Strobe is quite useful for seeing what services you are providing to the
> > world. Applying update rpms is an even better idea
>
> Surely, but going to the services question... shouldn't it be better
> that the "server" services be disabled by default? I mean, I use
> linux at home as a "workstation" computer (a simple client), not a
> network, inet, print (...) server, so I don't need all that extra
> stuff, and I shouldn't even need to go into all that unless I am
> interested in doing so. In fact, I didn't even know the
> /etc/services file existed until I spoke with that guy.
>
> So I think it's better to prevent all that you can, rather than to
> leave something "open" to the unknown. I mean, if someone wants a
> service, let them enable it at their own risk. See, I'm not a system
> administrator, I'm a simple linux user who likes the system for it's
> stability and flexibility, but I don't know everything about linux
> and I think I shouldn't even have to know certain things to do what
> I want to do with linux. I guess it's a matter of what's the volume
> market for redhat... either server configurations or client.
This sounds like a plea for an inetd.conf module for dotfile...
Does the current incarnation of Linuxconf allow you to control the
availability of services?
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