On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >So I will leave nologin and makedev alone but I think I will remove > >quotarpc and see what happends. > > Why not purge the package that provided it, instead of manually > mucking around with debian-installed files ? Oh, you are so right! Tried doing it manually and messed up somehow so now I think I'll just have to install from scratch again! The more it hurts, the more you learn! :-) (or so I hope!) > >I installed the quota pakage, could that be where quotarpc comes from? > > dpkg -S /etc/init.d/quotarpc will tell you. If it is, then > dpkg --purge quota will remove the package completely. I will try that, when I have everything up and running again tonight. > By the way, /etc/init.d/quotarpc is a shell script which is > easily readable. If you do that you'll see that the rpc.rquotad > daemon is only started if you have quotas enabled on the local > filesystem and are exporting filesystems over NFS. Otherwise, > the script does nothing. I will try to read it and see if I understand anything! :-) > And if you do have quotas enabled and you are exporting filesystems > over NFS to another box, you do actually want to have that daemon > running. I am not using NFS because I don't need it and it is bad from a security perspective as far as I understand. > So basically there's no need to muck around with the initscript > by hand. It will do the right thing automatically. I must admitt that I'm quite new to linux and particulary Debian so I have a lot to learn. Thanks to everybody for your help! /Jimmy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
