Re: services installed and running "out of the box"
David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk> writes:
> Quoting Matt Zimmerman (mdz@debian.org):
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote:
>> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:59:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
>> > > For starters, I think portmap, rpc.statd, and inetd should not run by
>> > > default. Not running a mail server (or perhaps only running one on the
>> > > loopback interface) would be nice, too.
>> >
>> > It can be damnably difficult to dump the web server... I've ended
>> > up downloading dhttpd and then removing links or changing the
>> > init.d/dhttpd file name.
>>
>> What is so difficult? No web server is installed by default. If you don't
>> want one, don't install one.
>
> The problem is that I want to read my documentation with a browser.
>
> ~# apt-get remove thttpd
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> dwww info2www thttpd
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 786kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> Abort.
> ~# logout
> ~$ netstat -a
> Active Internet connections (servers and established)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
> tcp 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN
> ...
>
> Where does one go from here?
It involves link removal, but if you remove all of the thttpd links in
/etc/rc?.d except one K link (doesn't matter which one), thttpd will
not start even if you upgrade the package.
--
Ted Cabeen
Sr. Systems/Network Administrator
Impulse Internet Services
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