031122 Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 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.
>> 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'.

yes, sorry for the rather naive question:
i knew re  runlevels , but hadn't remembered re  init.d .

> You can double check this by running 'rc-status'.
> If they are not in the list, then they don't start by default.

  > rc-status
  bash: rc-status: command not found

don't you have to do it per daemon, eg '.../adsl status' ?

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