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Start up scripts



I've taken a look at the start up scripts and prepared a proposal
stripping them down to firewall level.  See below.

Debian start up scripts:

Boot Phase:

0	/sbin/init
1	/etc/inittab
2	/etc/init.d/boot
3	/etc/init.d/isapnp
4	/etc/init.d/modules
5	/etc/init.d/network
6	/etc/init.d/urandom
7	/etc/rc.boot/0setserial
8	/etc/rc.boot/nvi

Start-Up Script Phase:

9	/etc/init.d/sysklogd
10	/etc/init.d/kerneld
11	/etc/init.d/netstd_init
12	/etc/init.d/netbase
13	/etc/init.d/gpm
14	/etc/init.d/lpd
15	/etc/init.d/ppp
16	/etc/init.d/netstd_nfs
17	/etc/init.d/netstd_misc
18	/etc/init.d/atd
19	/etc/init.d/cron
20	/etc/init.d/rmnologin


Ok, a few questions, in  /etc/init.d/boot:

what in the world is this construct?  ": > /etc/mtab"

mount -n -o remount,rw /
rm -f /etc/mtab~ /etc/nologin
: > /etc/mtab
mount -o remount,rw /
mount /proc

just had to ask.


in   /etc/init.d/boot:
%%%% REMOVE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
#
# Load the appropriate modules. This needs to be done here in case fs
modules
# are needed for accessing or mounting local file systems.
#
if [ -x /etc/init.d/modutils ]
then
  /etc/init.d/modutils start
elif [ -x /etc/init.d/modules ]
then
  /etc/init.d/modules start
fi
%%%% END REMOVE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


in /etc/init.d/boot:
%%%% REMOVE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
#
# Now that TCP/IP is configured, mount the NFS file systems in /etc/fstab.
#
echo "Mounting remote file systems ..."
mount -a -t nfs
%%%% END REMOVE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


%%%% REMOVE: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
/etc/init.d/modules---->modutils	No modules, custom kernel.
/etc/init.d/kerneld			Ditto.
/etc/init.d/gpm				Don't need a mouse on  firewall.
/etc/init.d/lpd                         Don't need a printer on firewall.
/etc/init.d/ppp   			If ppp-needed=False.
/etc/init.d/netstd_nfs			No NFS.
/etc/init.d/netstd_misc			Don't need rwho or boot server.
%%%%% END REMOVE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


in /etc/init.d/netbase:
comment out the portmap daemon, don't need to do RPC.

I'm not sure why the script exits if /usr/sbin/portmap does not exist.

Can't /usr/sbin/initd run stand-alone?

I figure we need keep /usr/sbin/initd to invoke smtp services for
connection requests to port 25.


	Henry Hollenberg     speed@barney.iamerica.net 



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