On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:24:02PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > For the firewall example specifically, there's no real reason firewalls on > most systems should even _require_ configuration - we know what services > are up, we should open those ports and close the other ports. On a > desktop, that probably means everything is closed. If someone starts a > service, the initscript or whatever can open the port. If you don't want a > port open, stop the service. In that case, why even _have_ a firewall? If nothing's listening on a port, it's not like anyone can connect to it. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
