From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 24 15:18:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE8537B43C for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:18:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA08046; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 18:18:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 18:18:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Brooks Davis Cc: "Gooderum, Mark" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nuking "unsafe" protocols (was Re: Upcoming rc.conf changes n ot loading certain currently loaded daemons) In-Reply-To: <20000824135944.B12283@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Brooks Davis wrote: >This change DOES NOT DISABLE INETD, PORTMAP, OR SENDMAIL ON NEW INSTALLS! >What it does do is set the default in /etc/defaults/rc.conf to off >and instruct sysinstall to turn them on in /etc/rc.conf. This means >the fact that they are on is clear visiable in /etc/rc.conf instead of >hidden in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. The idea is that you should be able to >look in /etc/rc.conf and tell which services are enabled. Sysinstall >will continue to enable many of them by default to make your life >easier. Sounds like a bikeshed to me. Who's got the paintbrush? Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message