Nataraj wrote: > Tom Horsley wrote: > >> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:39:55 +0200 >> drago01 wrote: >> >> >> >>>> finally squash avahi-daemon :-). >>>> >>>> >>> What did it ever do to you? >>> >>> >> I utterly despise all "helpful" software that automatically >> "discovers" things and triggers annoying sequences of >> events on my computer. If something happens, I want it to >> be because I told it to happen :-). >> >> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/stick/stick.html >> >> > I'm inclined to agree with Tom here. While I wouldn't choose the the > word despise, I have found the avahi-daemon to be annoying, including > the fact that in current releases of Redhat, if I use chkconfig to > disable it, updates turn it back on again and as Tom pointed out, it has > so many dependencies, that the only way to remove it is to ignore the > them. For most of the servers that I build, security is an issue and a > part of my approach is to disable all unneeded services. > > So anything that I disable, I did so for a reason, and I find that a > system that keeps trying to say, no, you really don't want to disable > this and finds ways to turn it back on again is in conflict with my > approach to security. This includes updates as well as startup scripts. > > Nataraj > > I will correct myself, and say that the avahi daemon gets turned back on again by updates in CentOS. I don't know if this is the case with Redhat, since the package update mechanism may differ. Nataraj -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
