On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:01:17PM -0500, Brent Metzler wrote: > >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. Why not use a superserver like xinetd or inetd? > >And most of all, for security sake. And what with the doze boxen on your network you've got enough to worry about. -- Ben Lutgens | http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ System Administrator | http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. | "If you love something set it free, if it doesn't come back to you hunt it down and set it on fire" -- George Carlin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020820/8289b2d3/attachment.pgp