Re: services installed and running "out of the box"
Agreed. The X maintainers (as one example) started doing that a while
back. I run exim and a few other services like this (manually
configured, sadly).
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:04, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:42:01PM -0700, Adam Lydick wrote:
>
> > Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a
> > default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't
> > really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running
> > fam or nfs -- which isn't enabled by default)
>
> I think it's more important that services only bind to localhost after
> installation (in the default configuration).
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