Re: And now for something completely different... etch!
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:32:53PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:03:12AM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote:
> > - inetd begone! -> xinetd (better mechanism to control DoS, privilege
> > separation, etc.)
>
> xinetd begone. There is no justification for using anything resembling
> inetd on a modern system.
Easy setting of a stunnel?
> > - Separate runlevels: 2 for multi, no net, 3 for multi no X, 4 for X, 4=5
>
> No way. Debian has always avoided mindlessly dictating what runlevels
> must be used for. There's no reason to destroy this feature now. And
> there's no advantage to consuming an entire runlevel just to say
> "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" or "/etc/init.d/networking stop", which is
> all that you are proposing.
Still, better have init 2 than having to hack the boot command line to set
init=/bin/bash, having to remount in rw and editing whatever you fucked up,
before all the services go up and people start login into your server.
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