On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I tried to send this once before and I think it failed. Is there some sort of quota
>on this list?
>
>
> I'm going through and applying all the security patches from RH, and decided I
>should remove a few packages that I'm not using. I'm afraid I'll accidently remove
>something I need without knowing it though :-\
>
> I'm doing webserving with Php, MySQL, Postgres, Postfix and sendmail, imap,
>gnupop3d, telnet, ssh, ProFTPd and wu-ftpd.
>
> I'd like to know if I can safely remove:
>
> 1. bind
This is the package to install the DNS server/daemon (named). You
probably don't need it at all, especially if you are using other servers
to resolve names. Check your "/etc/resolv.conf" file.
> 2. ypbind (what is ypbind for?)
This other one install the NIS service. NIS allows you to synchronize
certain files (especially the "/etc/passwd") over the network. If you're
using NFS and need users other than root to access their NFS mounted home
partitions or something like that (it doesn't sound as if this is your
case), then you will definitely need this package.
> 3. usermode
Installs certain utilities such as usermount or userpasswd that allow
regular users to perform some activities like mounting or unmounting
filesystems, etc. You may not need this either.
> 4. mailx
It installs the "/bin/mail" program, which is used sometimes by shell
scripts or Perl scripts to send email. You may want to reconsider this
one, although it depends on the use you make of scripts.
> 5. umb-scheme
Isn't this the scheme language? I don't think you'll need this one.
> 6. lpr - because we don't print from our web servers :-)
>
Definitely, if you don't need printing you can also uninstall this one.
> Oh and this package called "kernel"... ...no, just kidding :-)
Oh, yeah! That one! I suppose you can also uninstall it. It's pretty
careless and it gives this "oops" messages every now and then. Heheheee.
In any case, if you need more information about any package make sure
you run the 'rpm -qi [packagename]' command to obtain more information
about it. For example: rpm -qi usermode.
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