Fred J. Bourgeois, III wrote:
> Greg Andrews wrote:
>
>> Roy Nielsen <rsn@lanl.gov> writes:
>>
>>> Could this cause instablility in the system?
>>>
>>> # printer daemon...
>>> printer stream tcp nowait root
>>> /usr/lib/print/in.lpd in.lpd
>>>
>>
>>
>> Is the machine in question a print server? (I.e. does it receive
>> print jobs from other machines on the network to give to the printer?)
>>
>> If the answer is yes, then you should not comment out the in.lpd line.
>> Instead, consider using TCP wrappers to control access to in.lpd.
>>
>> If the answer is no, then you can comment out the in.lpd line with
>> little or no trouble.
>>
>> -Greg
>
>
> Same comment applies to the RPC services - do you really need walld?
> I don't remember rpc.smserverd (is that the Sun admin tool?) but I
> always disable it on my sparcs.
> -fjb
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>

Nevermind. smserverd is the media management server. I disable that
from way back because it was buggy (in SunOS 5.6). Maybe it is fixed
now? Anyway, if you don't need to manage removeable media via RPC then
disable it.
-fjb

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