Friends:

We are implemented a structure of security in a company, based on Linux. The resources with those that we count are 4 servers HP tc2110, each one of which will have SuSE Linux completing diverse functions (firewall, proxy, web server, database server, etc). My idea is the following one: I want to compile the kernel "to measure" (I already made it several times for other things) according to the functions characteristic of each server, for that which I have several questions: 1) can I take out of the kernel such services as ftp, telnet, etc., without it affects me the functionality characteristic of the server? For example: I want to compile the kernel with the basic thing that specifies the transparent proxy. 2) like I can know you to work and do minimum services specify the server that will have the firewall? 3) to compile, is it necessary to answer the questions one for one? I am not able to -for example -, to modify a supposition file that contains the questions, and then that the utility characteristic of the compiler receives it as entrance parameter?

I wait to have been clear and concise. Excuse my English.

Ernesto