Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-23 Thread Jimmy Johansson
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:30:12 +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote: Oh, you are so right! Tried doing it manually and messed up somehow so now I think I'll just have to install from scratch again! The more it hurts, the more you learn! :-) (or so I

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Travis Crump [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Z Maze wrote: Another is to use the man command; often random files are documented in man pages. For example, nologin(5) documents what exactly /etc/nologin does such that you'd need an init script to remove it. No,

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jimmy Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all replies, , they were very helpful! I got confused by the rm at the beginning of nologin and couldn't find a man page for it. Then I got lazy and asked about makedev and quotarpc also, instead of reading the

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-21 Thread Jimmy Johansson
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: So I will leave nologin and makedev alone but I think I will remove quotarpc and see what happends. Why not purge the package that provided it, instead of manually mucking around with debian-installed files ? Oh, you are so right! Tried

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:30:12 +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote: Oh, you are so right! Tried doing it manually and messed up somehow so now I think I'll just have to install from scratch again! The more it hurts, the more you learn! :-) (or so I hope!) OK, first lesson. STOP REINSTALLING.

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-20 Thread Jimmy Johansson
Thanks for all replies, , they were very helpful! I got confused by the rm at the beginning of nologin and couldn't find a man page for it. Then I got lazy and asked about makedev and quotarpc also, instead of reading the manpages. So I will leave nologin and makedev alone but I think I will

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-19 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:50:06 +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote: My question is, do I need rmnologin, The /etc/nologin file is described in man login. In short, you won't want to disable this daemon (it doesn't run in the background). makedev Not a daemon either. This one creates device nodes. See

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-19 Thread David Z Maze
Jimmy Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have recently installed Debian and I love it so far! I'm currently trying to secure it as much as I can... I'm reading debian-security-howto as I go along. I'm currently trying to remove unneeded daemons from /etc/rc?.d/ Why not uninstall them

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-19 Thread Travis Crump
David Z Maze wrote: Another is to use the man command; often random files are documented in man pages. For example, nologin(5) documents what exactly /etc/nologin does such that you'd need an init script to remove it. No, it doesn't. It documents why you'd need an init script to remove it