On Sunday 14 March 2004 04:51 pm, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 15:05:11 -0800 > > scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all! I'm running a knoppix originated sarge/sid box with the 2.6.3 > > kernel, and I was wondering if y'all could help me out here. > > > > When I type netstat -anp, it appears a whole lot of system processes > > are listening, I'm wondering, which of these do I not need, > > That depends entirely on what you want to have running on your system. > No one can answer that for you. > > > and which > > boot config file do I need to edit to stop them from loading again on > > reboot? > > Generally, you don't. Instead, you use the rcconf or update-rc.d > commands to select which services you want to run at boot-time. You > should look at section 2.4 of the Debian Reference, at > > http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference > > as well as the man pages for rcconf and update-rc.d. > > > Also, why so many with the kdeinit process? > > Those are UNIX domain sockets, rather than open TCP/IP ports, as the > headers for the output of the command says. As for why kdeinit uses > so many sockets, I presume it talks with a lot of other threads. > > > I'm reading the Oreilly 'running linux' but it doesn't say anything > > about most of these processes. > > > > Background info, I have two machines, 192.168.1.50 and 192.168.1.49 > > running behind a linksys router. I don' t currently share any > > information between them, and am not needing to run any webserver or > > streaming or ftp or ssh programs. any help would be appreciated. > > If you don't need those things, then it's a good idea to not even have > them installed. The installation scripts for Debian packages of > services like apache etc. assume that if you're installing the package, > it's because you want to use it; so also installed are scripts to fire > the service up at boot time. If you don't want that, then you can make > your system more secure by making those services *not* start at boot, > through the commands above. But an even better option is to not have > them installed unless you need them. > > The "Securing Debian" Manual may be useful to you: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#securing > > -c
Excellent! Thank you for the response, which is essentially exactly what I needed, suggestions, and resources to search. :) jaz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
