On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:34:28PM -0500, The Doctor What wrote: > I do not like the idea of a daemon starting up with a default > configuration that I have not double checked upon installation. I > consider automatically starting with no choice a misfeature.
I think I agree. I got a rude start today when I saw messages of the form: Sep 24 09:00:21 minion inetd[790]: linuxconf/tcp: unknown service [linuxconf was going to provide a tcp service to enable people to configure my machine and the only reason I stumbled across this was that I'd customized my /etc/services file and hadn't merged in changes from the .dpkg-dist copy?] Perhaps there are people who want a "service enabled by default" policy, and perhaps we should accomodate them. However, I'm not one of them and I don't want any services turned on on some of my machines without my explicit ok. Yes I'm aware that some of these services might not have any security bugs. So what? -- Raul
