Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?
Jeremy Hughes wrote: Paul Rodrguez wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize unnecessary startup services, both for speed and security. I've shut a bunch down, mostly servers that I'm not running, but there are a few that I'm not sure about. Namely: xfs rawdevices network irda fetchmail Do I need these to run a home workstation, (connected to the internet, but not wanting to run any servers or anything like that at this time)? -Paul R i am also trying to figure out which i need for a workstation. I you get an answer please forward to my also. Thanks.. I will do the same... Jeremy I just installed PMFirewall, and found a good Mandrake online tutorial at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Networking/IPmasq/pages/ that led me through the setup. So I got it up and running successfully. I port scanned myself using http://crypto.yashy.com and had no holes. The startup services on your list that I had enabled and running during the port scan were xfs and network. So I guess you can leave those two running safely if you need them. I'm not sure if they are really needed though in a desktop situation. I will remove them if I find out they are not needed. rawdevices I have set in startup services but it was not running. irda and fetchmail i do not have in my list of startup services. If you use the self port scan at the forementioned URL, su in a terminal first and run "tail -f /var/log/messages". Then you will see all the attempts at getting in, and if they all have a DENY in them, your door is locked.
Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?
Paul Rodrguez wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize unnecessary startup services, both for speed and security. I've shut a bunch down, mostly servers that I'm not running, but there are a few that I'm not sure about. Namely: xfs rawdevices network irda fetchmail Do I need these to run a home workstation, (connected to the internet, but not wanting to run any servers or anything like that at this time)? -Paul R i am also trying to figure out which i need for a workstation. I you get an answer please forward to my also. Thanks.. I will do the same... Jeremy begin:vcard n:Hughes;Jeremy x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Be sure to visit funknpunk.com for=0D=0Aupdates on spiritual teachings and =0D=0Afor the latest mixes by Jeremy. x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Jeremy Hughes end:vcard
Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?
Sorry, I am not trying to answer the question here - I am merely adding to it. There are some other services I have queries about. I have looked at the services section at mandrakeuser.org but it hasn't been updated since Mandrake 7.1, so it is missing a few entries. * drakfont: I do use TrueType fonts, but is it really necessary to have a daemon to check these fonts every time I boot? It adds about 5 seconds to bootup time and probably uses some memory too. * kheader: This looks (from the DrakConf description) like it would be useful, but is it necessary? Thanks for any help. On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:25, Jeremy Hughes wrote: Paul Rodrguez wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize unnecessary startup services, both for speed and security. I've shut a bunch down, mostly servers that I'm not running, but there are a few that I'm not sure about. Namely: xfs rawdevices network irda fetchmail Do I need these to run a home workstation, (connected to the internet, but not wanting to run any servers or anything like that at this time)? -Paul R i am also trying to figure out which i need for a workstation. I you get an answer please forward to my also. Thanks.. I will do the same... Jeremy -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
RE: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?
Certainly! For starters, I learned xFS is necessary to run X. It's a font server, apparently you can tell xfree86 not to need it somehow by editing some files, but I'm not sure why you would want to. And fetchmail only seems to be necessary if you are running a mail server (or I was told if you want to set up a server so you can have [EMAIL PROTECTED] email address, again not quite sure how to do that either). Not sure about the other ones yet. I'll let you know. I definately shut off all web servers (like apache and zope), and ftp. Also nfs. -Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Hughes Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 10:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary? Paul Rodrguez wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize unnecessary startup services, both for speed and security. I've shut a bunch down, mostly servers that I'm not running, but there are a few that I'm not sure about. Namely: xfs rawdevices network irda fetchmail Do I need these to run a home workstation, (connected to the internet, but not wanting to run any servers or anything like that at this time)? -Paul R i am also trying to figure out which i need for a workstation. I you get an answer please forward to my also. Thanks.. I will do the same... Jeremy _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?
Here are what the metioned services do; you decide if you need them: IRDA = IR communication. Do you use an IR device? XFS = The Xfont server. Normally required for X windows to run... rawdevice = is used to bind a Linux raw character device to a block device. fetchmail = is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility; it fetches mail from remote mailservers and forwards it to your local (client) machine's delivery system. Not nessessary (I don't think, not certain) if you use a popclient like Netscape. Paul Rodrguez wrote: Certainly! For starters, I learned xFS is necessary to run X. It's a font server, apparently you can tell xfree86 not to need it somehow by editing some files, but I'm not sure why you would want to. And fetchmail only seems to be necessary if you are running a mail server (or I was told if you want to set up a server so you can have [EMAIL PROTECTED] email address, again not quite sure how to do that either). Not sure about the other ones yet. I'll let you know. I definately shut off all web servers (like apache and zope), and ftp. Also nfs. -Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Hughes Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 10:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary? > Paul Rodrguez wrote: > > Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have > pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes > still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize > unnecessary startup services, both for speed and security. I've shut > a bunch down, mostly servers that I'm not running, but there are a few > that I'm not sure about. > > Namely: > > xfs > rawdevices > network > irda > fetchmail > Do I need these to run a home workstation, (connected to the internet, > but not wanting to run any servers or anything like that at this > time)? > > -Paul R i am also trying to figure out which i need for a workstation. I you get an answer please forward to my also. Thanks.. I will do the same... Jeremy _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- North Lilly Lan Administrator School of Library and Information Science Kent State University 330-672-2782 The Goddess is Alive and Magic is Afoot!
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[newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?
Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize unnecessary startup services, both for speed and security. I've shut a bunch down, mostly servers that I'm not running, but there are a few that I'm not sure about. Namely: xfsrawdevicesnetworkirdafetchmail Do I need these to run a home workstation, (connected to the internet, but not wanting to run any servers or anything like that at this time)? -Paul R
