Neil Schneider wrote: >..We don't really need much in the > way of development tools, and from a security point of view, there > shouldn't be any on a web server/mail server. It only makes it easier > for the crackers to compile their tools, if they break in to the > server.
That raises a side point: where _will_ we compile things that may want/need to be built in the future? On another xen image? On the mirror server we haven't budgeted? <heh> Somewhere where the libs and headers might not be quite compatible? Regards, ..jim -- KPLUG-Steer@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer