Services

[Joakim Ryden]

On Wednesday 15 October 2003 04:16 am, Mattias Dahlberg wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > Saving 0.02 seconds during boot time isn't worth the effort for
> > isdn at least.
>
> Ok.
>
> > How exactly?  I'm not sure that makes any sense.  On a fresh OS
> > installation, I expect to be able to ssh to that machine over the
> > network, and to do so without editing any ssh config files.
>
> You're right. But maybe it's an example of a service that could be off by
> default and if you need it you simply use redhat-config-services and put a
> checkmark in front of it.
>
> But of course, if a service takes zero seconds to start, has no noticable
> memory foot print and could never cause security problems it makes no sense
> to remove it from the startup.

I think a default policy of "start as little as possible" should always be the 
goal from all kinds of perspectives (security, startup time etc etc). Show me 
a piece of software that could never cause security problems and I will show 
you a very rich and famous programmer.  :-)

--Jo