On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Nitebirdz wrote:
> > Yep. If I'm not tight on drive space I usually do an "install
> > everything" setup. Specify custom -- select all, I think.
> > John
> >
>
> Be extremely careful with that type of installation, since you will end up
> with all sorts of daemons running in the background. Even if you have
> plenty of hard drive space, it may not be safe to do that kind of
> installation. Believe, it happened to me and I ended up having a cracker
> get into the box due to a security hole in one of the many daemons I had
> running.
>
> Just my 2 cents...
>
And a good comment. :-) However, I don't just blindly start up the
box afterwards and let it run. I go into setup and turn off a bunch
of stuff I don't need / want running and do the same with inetd.conf.
:-)
John
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