Re: [Sheflug] No ramen here, thanks...

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Richard Lowe writes:
 >  The only real reason to run portmap, is NFS, (or fam), and on
 > systems primarily aimed at desktop use (like RedHat (and I know I'll get
 > flamed for this))

*Pulls out 'Alien' style flame thrower and grins demonically*

 > I'm currently using Debian. but the times I ran RedHat I normally
 > ended up replacing the services I ran with better / more secure
 > alternatives anyway. (exim instead of sendmail, pdq instead of lpd, and
 > I think I tried djbdns instead of BIND). 

Sounds about right. I've got Qmail, djbdns, tcpserver, OpenSSH (rather
than SSH on the 6.2 box. - 7.0 already has OpenSSH), vanilla kernel
sources...

There are a few things wrong with RedHat - then again I still haven't
installed Debian correctly (but I haven't done half as many Deb
installs as RH).
If any of the major distros implemented the (as Alex puts it) BOFH
style of default installs it would be a good start.

Baz.
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