Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 16:49:47 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> To: 'Mark Newton' <newton@atdot.dotat.org>, "'RossWheeler<ross@home.albury.net.au>'" <ross@home.albury.net.au> Cc: 'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list' <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: [Oz-ISP] FreeBSD and the forces of darkness. Real religious w ars! (fwd) Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7650@l04.research.kpn.com>
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> "Even the site talks about a deamon being 'unleashed' in you
> computer blah."
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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.
Anyway, there's nothing to worry about. If your box is CE compliant it will
shield the outside world quite efficiently from what's inside.
Kees Jan
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