Greetings, Am Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2005 12:57 schrieb Paul Haesler: > > Hi everybody. I hope this question won't be too stupid. > > When I perform a standard installation (i.e minimal), the installer > > installs many servers, and launches them (like portmap, ssh, exim, > > etc). Why? I think that OpenBSD and FreeBSD, for example, don't launch > > any daemon at all, or at least prompt you before doing that. There > > must be a reason, but I don't see it (I'm not a networking/security > > guru, so please forgive me if the answer is obvious). > > I think you'll find OpenBSD launches at least sshd and sendmail > in the default install (although sendmail only listens on > loopback interface by default). I've always wondered about > portmap in debian myself - I presume it's to do with NFS. Perhaps > it has to be part of the base system to support network installs.
When I last installed OpenBSD I was asked on whether I want so use ssh. It doesn't start automatically. Keep smiling yanosz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
