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Re: Many ports open by default



On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:52:46PM +0000, Will Lowe wrote:
> > > I think it's safe to assume that your system MUST have a working MTA of
> > > some sort (even if it's local-only, which is supported by eximconfig).
> > This is true, but does it need to be world-accessible?  There should
> > be a way to either have it listen on localhost only, or not listen on
> 
> Sure, don't run the daemon at all.  When you install exim, "rm
> /etc/init.d/rc?.d/S*exim" and it won't start.  Local processes will be
/etc/rc?.d/S*exim
> able to send mail via the /usr/sbin/sendmail link, and there's a cronjob
> in /etc/cron.d/exim that'll try to clear the queue twice an hour.
> 
There was a discussion on this list earlier about creating a better way
than just removing a link from /etc/rc?.d.  Either it should work through
update-rc.d or debconf.  This is a lot neater than removing a link from
the startup directories, which IMHO should not have to be touched
directly by the administrator.

> > and perhaps this should be the default (correct me if this is already
> > the case, but I don't recall it being so).  Would it be feasible to
> 
> There isn't a default, it just leaves the package unconfigured, IIRC.
> 
> 
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