Re: services installed and running "out of the box"
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:44:21AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:52:27PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
> > 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.
Precisely. One cannot just install the packages and services
one wants. One must step outside the package system to fix
the problem, and continue to do so thereafter in the future.
A major port service should not be installed on a system
unless I specifically request its presence. There are too
many packages which require things which they do not
actually require.
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