On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:00:22 +0100, James Wilkinson <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What's your principal concern here? Security or saving memory? If it's > security, once you're sure you don't need a service, look into > uninstalling it. Umm... probably performance with security coming in at a close 2nd. This will be at home with nothing of great importance on it. > Firstly, switch to run-level 3. In /etc/inittab, change the line that > reads > id:5:initdefault: > to > id:3:initdefault: > > That will stop X starting. Great thank you. > ...presumably inwards... FTP will be used to upload/download my PHP files whilst accessing them from my Windows box and my IDE of choice. > Depending on what you're developing, I'd recommend stopping this > computer serving to the Internet until you've got the stuff debugged, > and checked for logic holes... I'm not fluent enough I think to find "logic holes" so I'll just have to do what I know (turn stuff off, use strong passwords, restrict firewall to minimum requirements, etc.). > I've sorted the list of services: Wow thanks! I don't think I could have even asked for a better response to my question! Thanks a lot. This will give a lot of good experiementing time. Chris.
