On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Hugh Fox wrote:
> How do I turn off the services I do not want.
See previous email.
> For me it just plugs possible security holes (and I don't need to
> worry about possible future exploits)
That's sensible enough. However, just so that everyone knows, the services
you listed (netatalk, lpd, samba) each have two or three barriers between
the Internet and the services - a packet filter, access control lists (TCP
wrappers, and selective binding to the internal interface.
> I will be adding a news server to the box, and have downloaded (but not
> installed) inn-2.2.3-3.i386.rpm for Redhat 7.0 from rpmfind.net. Does anyone
> know of any reason not to install this on e-smith ?
News servers are a real can of worms - very difficult to manage. They can
chew up all your bandwidth, disk space and peace of mind if you are not
very careful.
Be very sure that you need one before installing. Consider using something
like leafnode or nntpcache rather than INN.
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