Aaron Brown on Mon, 6 Sep 1999 23:36:06 -0400 (EDT) |
-- -Rune Einsteins theory of Relativity mean that no matter what direction you go in life you have a relative that has a theory... In the Depths of the minds of the insane Fantasy and Reality are the same... On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Nick R wrote: : :Anybody know what the following start-up services are, are used for, and :what requires them: :network I believe this is for what it is network, I think you need it for all network type things such as ppp and LAN. :gated If your not running through another computer for internet access or network access you are fine, if you have a direct connection to the net you can turn this off. (unless you use ipmaskarading) :rusersd rwalld rwhod These are for other computers to send you wall messages and to be able to do a who on your machine from a remote host. :amd autofs Turn these off unless you are on a LAN and plan on mounting different nfs volumes. :local I will pass on this one. : :I know amd and autofs are for automount, but I'm not exactly sure what :automount is for. I know gated is the gateway daemon, but I don't quite know :what I'd need that for either. And last, I know basically what rwalld and :rwhod as well as rusersd do, but I'm not quite sure under what conditions :they function and what services require them. I have no idea what network :and local do. : :I might've already sent this (I don't think so), but I don't quite remmber. :I'm pretty tired, but on the bright side, my car now has a radio. : : -Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org : : :If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: :88. If a group of henchmen fail miserably at a task, I will not berate them :for incompetence then send the same group out to try the task again. : -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, :http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html : :______________________________________________________ :Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com : :_______________________________________________ :Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net :http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug : _______________________________________________ Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
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