On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:32 PM, nodata <lsof@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 24.09.2008, 22:13 +0200 schrieb Christoph Höger: >> Hi, >> >> I have some services found being activated by default that should be >> removed for the following reasons: >> >> 1. sendmail: starts way too slow, is not usefull for any normal desktop >> user I know. Making it usefull requires configuration so I assume >> wohever uses that service _can_ activate it. > > How will you get emails from logwatch and errors from your cron scripts? > >> 2. ip6tables: I do not know of any provider actually working with ipv6. >> So I assume the mass of all users do not need it. > Not having ipv6 firewall means that you aren't protected if someone wants to walk your 'local' network via ipv6. ping6 -I eth0 ff02::1 walk the hosts with no firewalls. I am guessing that turning off ipv6 altogether would be a better idea, but I do not know what effect that has on things like ipsec etc. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
