FC2 test1

Willem Riede wrrhdev at riede.org
Sun Feb 15 15:24:54 UTC 2004


On 2004.02.15 05:46, David Jansen wrote:

> Most of those services do nothing (except for a slight delay) when teh
> hardware isn't there. At least pcmcia and isdn are harmless. I guess the
> philosophy here is to not bother the user with questions about hardware
> support, but just include support for everything.

Why? We have kudzu. If it detects the hardware, enable the service, else
disable it. They're harmless at best (as you write) but running unneeded
services is wasteful and just creates more risk of security issues.

Regards, Willem Riede.





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