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Re: daemon configuration



On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Michael Stone wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 02:59:38AM -0400, Rick wrote:
> > I'm uncertain whether this is a good idea or not.  I have helped many
> > people install redhat linux and, frankly, the daemon enable screen
> > confuses them.  They don't know what all these things are or which ones
> > they may need.  If this gets implemented at least have an obvious "enable
> > default daemons" button.
> 
> Think about this for a second. Why do we want to make it easy for people
> to enable remote access to their system if they're unaware of what that
> means?

I agree with you, that was just an example.  It could just as easily be a
"disable all daemons" or perhaps "disable all network daemons".

Laters,

Rick (rick@chillin.org)
http://rick.chillin.org


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