Re: Many ports open by default
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:49:47PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> 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
Er, *beep, wrong*. That will remove _all_ links, which means that your changes
will be lost at the next upgrade. update-rc.d remove is meant to be called
from postrm. It would be nice if update-rc.d included a convenience option to
remove all S?? links, but it doesn't.
--
- mdz
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