[geeks] wild article

James Sharp jsharp at psychoses.org
Fri Feb 8 16:31:32 CST 2002


>   OK, a slightly different approach...instead of modifying the shutdown
>   scripts, just modify the hell out of the startup scripts. Just start
>   up the absolute bare minimum of kernel-space daemons, and unmount all file
>   systems except the swap.  Configure syslog to log remotely.
>
>   So all you'd have running would be sshd, syslogd, swap daemon, and
>   anything else that the above daemons would need.

Sounds like an out-of-the-box OpenBSD install to me.  Only the bare
minimum stuff running.

And it also sounds like good sysadmin practice...no need to run rpc
portmapper, nfsd, apache, postfix, linuxconf, telnetd, or slapd or
whateverelse on a box that just does nameservice.



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