10/18
Hello,
My special thanks to Mr. Vitaly Karasik for helping me with
the syslogging and logrotate. The articles are good. I have
some issues but I will respond after I finish with those articles.
---------------------------Problem----------------------
I run an IPtables fireall on a default installation of Redhat
9 on my desktop. The machine DO NOT have any other function.
Since my experience in the Linux world was humble, I chose to
install everything during installation of the OS. {especially
since I felt most of the necessary rpms will be installed that
way}.
I would like to seek your advise on the services that I should
stop for safety of the firewall. I noted some of the functions
that I read from the GUI services tool. The services running are
(1) anacron; (2) apmd(monitoring battery); (3) atd (runs
command scheduled by 'at'); (4) autofs; (5) cron;
(6) cups(I stopped it as I have no printer); (7) GPM(mouse
support for text based linux app); (8) hpoj; (9) irqbalance;
(10) isdn (stopped);
(11) keytable; (12) netfs; (13) nfslock; (14) portmap; (15)
rendow;
(16) rawdevices; (17) sendmail (I stopped it); (18) sgi_fam;
(19) spamassasin; (20) xinetd
B)
I dont need the GUI any more. Does running the firewall in
command line mode offer more protection? Now the KDE is
running. {If I go to command line with <shift> + F5 key will
it offer more protection?}
Thanks.
Menon
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