From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 5:42: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9023037B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 05:42:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20FF743E65 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 05:42:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 13677 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2002 12:41:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 3 Sep 2002 12:41:53 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 956B8E3; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:41:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:41:52 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: John Chang Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: XFree86 Message-ID: <20020903124152.GK21595@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: John Chang , FreeBSD LIST References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020902185316.0197ca98@j.imap.itd.umich.edu> <20020901151838.U37627-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20020902185316.0197ca98@j.imap.itd.umich.edu> <5.1.0.14.2.20020903083141.01ad2998@j.imap.itd.umich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020903083141.01ad2998@j.imap.itd.umich.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG please don't top post # John Chang / 2002-09-03 08:32:26 (-0400): > At 09:07 AM 9/3/2002 +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > ># John Chang / 2002-09-02 18:55:12 (-0400): > >> Is it bad practice (security-wise and performance) to run a GUI like > >> Xfree86 when doing some administration? > > > > if we're talking about servers... > > that is a matter of taste, but, umm, yes. > > > >> Or should everything be done in command-line and not install it? > > > > what kind of administration do you need X for? > > I'm planning to just use Apache and some form of SSL. then i don't even see how having any kind of GUI installed on the machine would help. -- FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE 2:39PM up 13 days, 20:32, 10 users, load averages: 0.30, 0.13, 0.10 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message