Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Distro Rant: Was: Permanently halting services / inn news server question

[Rob Adams]

From: "Peter Cavender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] Distro Rant: Was: Permanently halting services /
inn news server question


>
> > I think this has been asked and answered on this group, but I can't find
the
> > info anymore ...
> >
> > I do not require that my new e-smith server be used for atalk, samba, or
> > lptr access. Only for proxying and as an email server.
> >
> > How do I turn off the services I do not want. For me it just plugs
possible
> > security holes (and I don't need to worry about possible future
exploits)
>
> Well, you can nuke them with an rpm -e <packagename>

I tried doing this to e-smith 4.01 and then got errors changing passwords in
e-smith-manager, because removing the rpm doesnt change the scripts for the
html interface.

Rob.