Daemon umask

2012-08-07 Thread Laurie Mercer
Is it possible to set the umask to a value (in this case 27) at boot time so that all daemon processes started at boot time will have this umask by default (unless they override it)? In Redhat this is done in the /etc/sysconfig/init file, umask parameter, which is not present in Debian. --

Re: Daemon umask

2012-08-07 Thread Jordon Bedwell
Hi, On 08/07/2012 08:15 AM, Laurie Mercer wrote: Is it possible to set the umask to a value (in this case 27) at boot time so that all daemon processes started at boot time will have this umask by default (unless they override it)? In Redhat this is done in the /etc/sysconfig/init file,

Disabling IPv6 and other networking protocols: Best Practice?

2012-08-07 Thread Laurie Mercer
I would like to disable IPv6, and some transport layer protocols, RDS, TIPC etc However I am unsure of the best practise in doing this. So far I am disabling IPv6 using the sysctl command: sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 Then,

Re: Disabling IPv6 and other networking protocols: Best Practice?

2012-08-07 Thread Michael Fladerer
Hi. On Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 17:09:50 +0100, Laurie Mercer wrote: I would like to disable IPv6, and some transport layer protocols, RDS, TIPC etc However I am unsure of the best practise in doing this. So far I am disabling IPv6 using the sysctl command: sysctl -w

Re: Disabling IPv6 and other networking protocols: Best Practice?

2012-08-07 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 19:08:14 +0200 Michael Fladerer flade...@fnb.tu-darmstadt.de wrote: On Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 17:09:50 +0100, Laurie Mercer wrote: I would like to disable IPv6, and some transport layer protocols, RDS, TIPC etc However I am unsure of the best practise in doing this. So far