If you are printing locally I would suggest pdq and xpdq. Read about them on www.linuxprinting.org You can apt-get them from unstable and I think testing. If you just make a sym link called lpd pointing to pdq alot of things work very well.
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:08:05 -0600 >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 > >
