Am Son, 2002-05-05 um 13.35 schrieb Michael Ströder:
HI!
The run-level editor in SuSE 8.0 always switches port mapper on because it assumes that it's needed by inetd. But I have no service in my inetd.conf at all which needs portmapper.
Since portmapper is one of the most evil beasts regarding security this behaviour of the Yast2 run-level editor is complete bullshit!
ACK. that's why i'm administrating unix/linux systems using an editor and a shell. that's all you need. yast(1/2) is running while installation and can go where ever it likes after that. there are some more things i don't like on yast/yast2. after installing a new rpm, lets say vim, why my sendmail must be reconfigured by suseconfig ????? there are more useless things done after installing new rpms, even if everything else works fine, when i install them using rpm on the cmdline. i don't get paid for wasting time. i've get paid for administrating/programming systems, not for wasting my time on useless things. so my advice: administrate your system by hand and let all those susetools untouched. but be careful on updaeting your system to a new suse version, lot of thing could be gone, because suse doesn't use the real config script to configure your systems, but there own ones. so backup before using yast/yast2. unix, seperating the boys from the men. mfg alex -- mfg alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and tell you that you are free