On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 02:15:53AM +1100, Martin Bishop wrote: > Netstat shows the following services on my home machine: > > Active Internet connections (servers and established) > *:printer
This is lpd. You only need this if your mascine has a printer atteched to it AND accepts print jobs from other PCs. Id you don't have a printer then don't run lpd. If you have a printer but only print locally, I think you can unbind the tcp port but I'd have to look it up. I really hate lpd; I think it's the worst part of unix-like systems. > *:dict This is a dictionary server ... not sure why you're running this :) > *:sunrpc You only need this if you're running NFS or NIS (or some other RPC service). Chances are you're not, so remove the start links for portmap. > *:auth This is the ident (RFC1412) protocol ... it's stupid but lots of servers want to connect here before they let you use the service. I recommend oidentd. > *:smtp Unless you _receive_ mail from the network, you don't need to bind to the smtp port. For sending mail you simply need to run through the queue periodically. Exim used to have a default setup where reception was controlled by inetd and sending was a cronjob. I'm sure this is still documented somewhere (in other words, you don't run exim as a daemon, you fire off a queue runner every 10 minutes ...) HTH, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton
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