On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 16:06 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > BTW I think I said earlier that I accepted the need for sendmail because > > some other stuff assumes it exists. I should have said that the other > > stuff assumes the sendmail *program* is available, but it doesn't assume > > there is a sendmail *daemon* actually running. AFAIK you could just turn > > it off. It's not consuming significant resources so it's not a big deal, > > but from a security standpoint it's good practice not to run stuff you > > don't need. > > I'm sure you are right. > On the other hand, there are a large number of services running > on modern systems whose purposes are shrouded in mystery for me, > and I would imagine most users. > I see from "chkconfig --list" that I have 37 services running, > 17 of which are complete mysteries to me. > Could I safely turn off rpcgssd? Who knows. If you look at the comment at the beginning of /etc/rc.d/init.d/rpcgssd you'll see it's related to NFS clients. Since I'm not using NFS I don't need it. Other services will have similar comments. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
