On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:00:22 +0100, James Wilkinson james@westexe.demon.co.uk wrote:
What's your principal concern here? Security or saving memory? If it's security, once you're sure you don't need a service, look into uninstalling it.
Umm... probably performance with security coming in at a close 2nd. This will be at home with nothing of great importance on it.
Firstly, switch to run-level 3. In /etc/inittab, change the line that reads id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault:
That will stop X starting.
Great thank you.
...presumably inwards...
FTP will be used to upload/download my PHP files whilst accessing them from my Windows box and my IDE of choice.
Depending on what you're developing, I'd recommend stopping this computer serving to the Internet until you've got the stuff debugged, and checked for logic holes...
I'm not fluent enough I think to find "logic holes" so I'll just have to do what I know (turn stuff off, use strong passwords, restrict firewall to minimum requirements, etc.).
I've sorted the list of services:
Wow thanks! I don't think I could have even asked for a better response to my question! Thanks a lot. This will give a lot of good experiementing time.
Chris.