--- "Binand Raj S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > atd is not required. Period. It should be uninstalled (along with all > the other services that you stopped).
Hmm is atd any worse than crond ?? If not I dont think it hurts to have atd around - I have had used it in the past but not too often :). > > anacron is not required on long running servers. > Well anacron is obviously not needed when the server is running but on a reboot it definitely is useful :). In anycase it is a startup script rather than a running daemon isnt it ?? > rawdevices is quite application specific. Its main use is for > databases > (oracle and such). It can be disabled too. err no comments but it is not a security risk either I think so I keep it around. > Hmm. I'd rather use software from my distributor's packages. It would > be optimised, would have gone through their QA process, would > integrate > with the rest of the system better etc. :) I'd like to hear your > thoughts > on this, of course. Umm apache and earlier perl was two things which I used to compile from scratch since RedHat was eons behind the latest stable version. I think RedHat stuck to perl 5.005 for ages and apache 1.3.12 with patches backported. In any case I think Apache Foundation can do a better QA and testing than RedHat. I also tend to stay in control of the version of apache and perl that is running on my servers. I noticed RedHat one fine day upgraded perl from 5.6.0 to 5.6.1 this probably wouldnt affect anyone but it makes me very uncomfortable. The kernel one fine day jumped from 2.4.9 to 2.4.18 I am glad I dont have any custom kernel modules :). Reminds me if you use RedHat 8.0 it uses Apache 2.0 with perl 5.8 I am aware that not all mod_perl applications work well under those combination yet so there is another big reason not to follow what RedHat is bundling by default. Mithun __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
