"Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "LINK WORLD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 1:02 AM
> Subject: [Cooker] 10 Desktop features request
>
>
> > Dear Cooker,
> >
> > I am using Mandrake 7.0 for over 3 months now on a
> 4-way networked system. I have lost several man days on
> setting up mandrake for what appears to me to be obvious
> > defaults:
> >
> > 1. httpd (apache server) is on by default. Why?
> >
>
> Because if you chose it to be installed (and you did
> choose it, maybe not voluntarily), the assumption is
> that you want to use it. It's easy enough to stop and a
> good sysadmin will examine his system for all services
> he does not want or need and disable them. It's just a
> fact of life and good Linux administration.
Its importance was "23" (on a 0-100 scale) so that it get installed when
asked for a "complete" installation, e.g. more than 1200 mbytes approx.
It has been (together with most of servers) lowered so that it won't get
installed, because other people than linkworld also experienced problems.
--
Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
