I do not believe the number of people who seem to be in the "why not create complicated symlinks manually stuffing everything up and forgetting to deal with half the runlevels and turning services off at shutdown" corner, instead of just running insserv, which is the Linux standard way of doing it. Incidentally, it also gets it just right. I prefer chkconfig especially for its -l (right PITA on distros which don't have it, i.e. every but SUSE I think).
After every installation I run chkconfig -l to get a quick list of what's running and what I don't need = don't want. And every distro worth mentioning has its own GUI runlevel editor. Remember that with all network-related services you need to check that the firewall (packet filter) configuration is the way you want it. SUSE's is configured with /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2, which is edited by yast in some cases, but is also *very* easy to adjust with an editor (including turning the whole thing into a router - needs at least two network cards) - it's the easiest and fastest firewall to configure I've yet seen. > Thanks, that was what I was looking for, I got as far as looking at > xinted but realising that was not quite right. inetd fell from grace a long time ago (security, or rather lack thereof), nothing much really uses it anymore these days. Make sure it's off. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
