[97762] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat bugs???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian)
Wed Nov 4 23:08:20 1998
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 16:40:27 -0500
From: Dorian <nazark@idt.net>
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Actually RedHat installation gives you a chance to diable all the services. When you ask get to the part of the installation that asks you what services to start a boot uncheck inet . Inet is the service responsible for watching the ports and starting the appropriate program when a connection request is recieved.
To disable it now just reun setup from a shell and choose the system services menu
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998 12:56:41 John D. Hardin wrote:
> 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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