Re: Many ports open by default
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:22:47AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:29:58PM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:
> > I suspect it's already been discussed before, so I'll ask instead of
> > flaming. (See! I can learn!)
>
> many times before.
>
> > Why does a server automatically get run just because it's installed?
>
> because if you didn't want it to run, you wouldn't have installed it.
>
> if you want to install it but not run it, then edit the startup script.
>
> simple.
Or, rm /etc/rc?.d/S??package, and not have to worry about merging in future
changes to the init script.
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- mdz
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