Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:27:37 +0200 From: Pekka Savola <Pekka.Savola@netcore.fi> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Selecting which programs to have in the base system Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19991213182737.00833b30@netcore.home>
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Hello all, I posted this to freebsd-newbies (this seems like a newbie/faq question to me) and freebsd-stable a day or two ago but got no answer. So let's try this list.. How can I manipulate -easily- which base system files (in e.g. /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin) will be installed/compiled when I cvsup the sources and make world ? The problem is, according to /var/log/setuid.today, I have ~70 files (some of them just symbolic links though) which are setuid root (95% of them from base system). Talk about security! I'd like to remove the ones I don't need and never hear of them again (like ppp*, r*, yp*). Also, having stuff like this along just takes some HDD space too. I couldn't care less of having e.g. some games in my system. So, are there any utilities to keep track which base programs/sources are installed and which are not - and how to keep them that way so that upgrading the sources, 'make world', etc. won't mess those up? Btw, regarding setuid.today.. are there any good "master" references which files in the base system really need to be +s ? I can't believe all ~70 of them have to be... Regards, Pekka Savola Pekka Savola pekkas@netcore.fi --- Across the nations the stories spread like spiderweb laid upon spiderweb, and men and women planned the future, believing they knew truth. They planned, and the Pattern absorbed their plans, weaving toward the future foretold. -- Robert Jordan: The Path of Daggers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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