i installed Gentoo 031015 & am very pleased with it, but still learning.
there are 4 daemons in /etc/init.d for remote access to my box: sshd slapd slurpd rsyncd . i've checked their man pages & all appear to be running as servers for things i don't need or want. i do want to use 'ssh', but that's unaffected when i remove 'sshd'.
two questions: am i correct that i can remove these scripts from init.d without interfering with the ordinary functioning of my system ? and why are they set up by default on a Gentoo system, when they cd cause a security problem for a naive -- mb me -- user ?
and perhaps a 3rd question: are there any other similar items in init.d ?
Just because they are in /etc/init.d does not mean that they are running. They are only running if *you* did 'rc-update add <service> default'. You can double check this by running 'rc-status'. If they are not in the list, then they don't start by default.
-- Andrew Gaffney
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