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Paul Richards <pauldoo@dunvegan1.demon.co.uk> doodled in uk.comp.os.linux:

> > Since I still don't know what all those services are I'll leave them all
> > as is and just set up a firewall.

Bah. Find them and work out whether you want them or not! :]
	su root -c 'fuser -n tcp 23'
that's enough of a hint :)

Right, on with the thingy...

> 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...

Yeah. But while you're at it, apt-get install gfcc, and play with that
instead. It's a pretty decent interface to ipchains, and will export shell
scripts for you to debug^Wuse, so you can get the hang of it all sooner or
later.
(Make sure you have a clear picture of what interface in your machine is doing
what, and what the input/forwarding/output chains *do*, as from e.g. the
Masquerading HOWTO. Then consider running gfcc :)

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

I've been having that with Potato at work of late - it went up to >300M (on a
box with 256M RAM and 128M swap) and I had to kill my favourite wmaker only
this morning. Grrr!

> Anyway, that was pointless for you guys to know.

Not at all. I hope they've updated the X server package since then, else I'll
kick up A Stink again :]

~Tim
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