Thats what I was afraid of, I'm thinking now maybe just re-install from scratch with only the things I need and force myself to learn how to install packages and dependencies. But I am gonna try what you have suggested because I've never down that before.
Thanks Warren, Jon On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 22:54, Warren Togami wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 20:10, Jon Reynolds wrote: > > Warren, after reading this post I was wondering how bad it is to just > > install everything during the initial install of my OS RH7.3? If you saw > > my last post to the list I can't even figure out how to get sound to > > work on my laptop. Whenever I try to just install what I think I need, > > then try and add an application like star office, there are so many > > dependencies that I can never get them all installed correctly. So I > > just do a full install, which is a waste of space and resources. Oh > > well, as I asked earlier how bad is a full install? > > > > Jon > > Fairly bad because it is running many of those services that you have > installed, even though you don't need most of them. > > Your Apache, PHP and OpenSSL is vulnerable to several exploits. You may > already be cracked by the worm mentioned earlier in this thread. > Several other components may be vulnerable. Check out this page for a > list of security errata for Red Hat 7.3: > http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh73-errata-security.html > > Try scanning yourself with "nmap localhost" to see your open ports. I > can already tell you that you should turn off all your services and use > Red Hat's automated update tool. > > service httpd stop > service sendmail stop > service xinetd stop > service named stop > service squid stop > service smb stop > > (Use "chkconfig SERVICENAME off" with those same service names in order > to keep them from starting automatically at bootup.) > > Then run "rhn_register" and follow on-screen instructions. Otherwise > use Red Hat Network in the System menu of KDE or Gnome. > > "up2date -u" will download and install all updated packages at the > command line. Running "up2date" or the "Update Agent" in X will bring > up a gui tool somewhat like Windows Update. Just click click click, > wait, done. > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
