From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 14 7:53:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.theinternet.com.au (zeus.theinternet.com.au [203.34.176.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D68737C201 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 07:53:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akm@mail.theinternet.com.au) Received: (from akm@localhost) by mail.theinternet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA57230; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:57:32 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from akm) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <200006141457.AAA57230@mail.theinternet.com.au> Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] FreeBSD and the forces of darkness. Real religious w ars! (fwd)) In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7650@l04.research.kpn.com> from "Koster, K.J." at "Jun 14, 2000 04:49:47 pm" To: "Koster, K.J." Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:57:31 +1000 (EST) Cc: "'Mark Newton'" , "'RossWheeler'" , "'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list'" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG +----[ Koster, K.J. ]--------------------------------------------- [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] | > | > "Even the site talks about a deamon being 'unleashed' in you | > computer blah." | > | Have you perhaps pointed out that Linux is full of daemons too? If you | listen closely to the box you can hear them chitter amongst eachother. Inetd | for example, a.k.a. "The Mother of All Deamons". Phew, they don't come much | worse than that. It's even known to spawn others. I won't even mention the | http deamon and maybe even the talk daemon. No telling who it talks to. | | At least BSD puts a clear warning sticker on the box, whereas Linux daemons | tend to hide in animal guises. Penguins, I believe. Catholic schools are probably a lot happier with Penguin imagery... *thinks of Jake & Elwood* -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew Milton The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F:+61 7 3870 4477 | ACN: 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 | Carpe Daemon PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message