Re: services installed and running "out of the box"
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:52:27PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Matt Zimmerman (mdz@debian.org):
> > > 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?
If you only want the web server for reading documentation, reconfigure the
web server to only listen on localhost.
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- mdz
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