Re: Many ports open by default

[Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com>]

Quoting mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu:

> 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

*beep, wrong* :)

update-rc.d -f exim remove


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