On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 20:34, Dave Sherman wrote: > > That said, though, I was *really* trying to show the individual that it > would be better to completely remove unneeded (and inwanted) services, > than to simply disable them. Thus my instructions about rpm. If he's > running an embedded system, he should really pare the system down to the > bare essentials of what he needs, rather than go with a default Red Hat > install with many services disabled. Well, one reason you might want a service disabled instead of removed is if you need to use it only at certain times. For instance, I have Samba installed but don't have it start at boot-up. The only time I need to use Samba is to access shares from a Windows box. So I'll only start Samba if I need to access it from a Windows box, which is rare. > Actually, this philosophy applies > just as well for any system: completely remove any services you know you > won't need, in order to save disk space, processor time, RAM usage, and > other resources. Put simply, "Trim the fat!" > And most of all, for security sake. -- Brent Metzler | AIM: bmetzl1999 brent at bmetzler.org | Y! : bmetzl1999 612-270-0119 | ICQ: 43952639