Hello Dan, Basically, you are right. You don't want any servers running. This should be a basic option at installation time, but apparently it isn't. Using YaST or YaST2 (I have no experience with 7.1, you'll have to check), you can disable inetd, apache etc. However, I recommend leaving a mailserver running, but configured to listen only on localhost. I think if you disable your mailserver you will no longer get mails sent by the CRON scripts (someone correct me if there is a workaround). These can be helpful. I recommend Postfix for a variety of reasons, pls. try configuring this in YaST or simply edit /etc/rc.config.d/postfix.rc.config. One more thing, if you don't want X to listen for network connections -- this is neat if you are logging in to another computer and want to run something in X from that computer, but otherwise inessential and insecure (the main reason I disabled all my servers). To see how, please visit the SuSE security FAQ at http://members.cotse.com/nix/suse-security-faq/ At the same time, you should probably set up the SuSE firewall, either through YaST or by editing /etc/rc.config.d/firewall.rc.config. It's quite self-explanatory. The new firewall rpm is available by typing ftp ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/sec1/SuSEfirewall.rpm at the command line. There are even newer alphas and betas at http://www.suse.de/~marc/SuSE.html All that being said, I think you will improve your security more than your boot-speed. For impressively fast booting, you should see FreeBSD! Best, Corvin On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 02:39:22PM +0000, Dan The Man wrote:
I notice that my new installation of SuSE 7.1 runs through a long list of programs at boot time. I am wondering whether some of the programs being run are superfluous. For example inetd, AFAIK, is an internet server, right? But all I need is a normal desktop set up (Browser , Email, Word processing, the gimp, Office apps). Surely I don't need to run a server, and not doing so could speed up my system.
I have installed the basic (+office) option with 7.1. Are there likely to be many programs I could skip at startup. If so, which ones are they, and how would I go about removing them from the list.
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