🚀 go-pugleaf

Paul Richards wrote:
> 
> Steve Dodd wrote:
> [snip usefull information]
> 
> > There's an awful lot of stuff running there -- what distro are you using?
> 
> Debian potato.
> 
> > I'm wondering if inetd(8) is listening to many ports for which the associated
> > programs aren't installed. It would certainly be worth reading about inetd
> > and inetd.conf, and then having a rummage around in the latter file. Also
> > read about tcpd and hosts_access for setting IP restrictions on services.
> >
> > Also, I didn't see any *udp* listeners in there, which seems odd. netstat
> > -ul will show those.
> 
> Since I still don't know what all those services are I'll leave them all
> as is and just set up a firewall.

OK, I've got the firewall thing enabled in the kernel ("Network
firewalls" and "IP: Firewalling") and I installed fwctl.  I can run
fwctl but it just gives me the flags.

I guess I'll need to actually read some docs or something totally
irrational like that...

Some odd things I noted before I rebooted:
 XF86_SVGA was taking 190Mb of memory???
 Now it's only at 30Mb.

Anyway, that was pointless for you guys to know.


/me is off to put Quake II back into cache where it'll stay for a couple
of weeks.
-- 
Paul Richards (Pauldoo) - http://www.pauldoo.co.uk

I've not ran any Microsoft code for 1450737 seconds.
    How about you?