On Saturday 22 November 2003 09:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> i installed Gentoo 031015 & am very pleased with it, but still learning. > >> there are 4 daemons in /etc/init.d for remote access to my box: > >> sshd slapd slurpd rsyncd . i've checked their man pages > >> & all appear to be running as servers for things i don't need or want. > >> two questions: am i correct that i can remove these scripts from init.d > >> without interfering with the ordinary functioning of my system ? > >> and why are they set up by default on a Gentoo system, > >> when they cd cause a security problem for a naive -- mb me -- user ? > >> and perhaps a 3rd question: are there any other similar items in init.d > >> ? > > > > Just because they are in /etc/init.d does not mean that they are running. > > They are only running if *you* did 'rc-update add <service> default'. > > yes, sorry for the rather naive question: > i knew re runlevels , but hadn't remembered re init.d . > > > You can double check this by running 'rc-status'. > > If they are not in the list, then they don't start by default. > > > rc-status > bash: rc-status: command not found > > don't you have to do it per daemon, eg '.../adsl status' ?
you can do it per daemon, but rc-status will actually test the status of all services registered to your current runlevel. you can add a service to a runlevel with: rc-update add <service> <runlevel> and remove it with rc-update del <service> <runlevel> this will create/remove the symlink /etc/runlevels/<runlevel>/<service> you can add or remove the links there yourself if you don't want to use the rc-tools. but don't remove things in /etc/init.d rc-status is in /bin and is part of the baselayout ebuild. I think this one is included by default in gentoo. but if /bin/rc-status is not found, try re-emerging baselayout. -- mathieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
