Its not 'multi tasking' anymore? LONG

Cian Duffy myob87 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 13 18:17:48 MST 2005


> mouse-emulation,atd, iptables,

You need these

> sshd, ip6tables,

Unless you ssh in or use IPV6, you don't need these

> random, spamassassin,

I guess the first is the entropy gatherer for ssh, the latter is up to you.

> portmap, ipchains,

Don't know if you need these if you're not packetflinging (routing).
Someone else will be better able to tell you

> xinetd, messagebus, gpm, privoxy, syslog, network,
> autofs, crond, anacron, xfs, sysstat

Out of these, they all sound important bar privoxy - its just a
paranoia tool in my opinion.
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