On 23Apr2006 01:37, Ali Helmy <alihelmy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | What is the absolute MINIMUM of services that need to be running in order for | runlevel3 to work correctly? I mean, can I remove ALL services, and just | start runlevel3, then after log-in, run what ever service i want? Just about. As recommended by Charles Curley, you will probably want a firewall if you turn on the network. But technically, not even that. In theory, if you run no network services you need not have a firewall because your machine will not be listening to the network. And if you turn on a service you will want to be opening a matching firewall hole anyway. I major benefit of a firewall to a standalone machine is that you will know exactly what your are letting in. Turning on a network daemon _may_ cause your machine to listen to all sorts of stuff unexpectedly. On my machine I have turned off everything with chkconfig, and then start it by hand from /etc/rc.local. Why? A few reasons: the /etc/init.d startup scripts from RedHat and Fedora as quite inefficient for some things, and starting them from my own script lets me start things in parallel. Also, this way I know at a much lower level what I am starting. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. - Fred Allen
