Jason Brown wrote:
> >I would only kill squid if you are not going to access the
> web...
>
> Why do you recommend this?
To give you better web access speed.
> I generally dislike the cached proxy because of
> gettting stale content on certain sites unless i reload.
Those sites are probably putting out content without the right
headers. But anyway, if you don't want squid you can eliminate it..
> Should the web not work fine just via IPCHAINS?
Yes.
> > You will need to change some templates, remove symlinks,
> > and edit perl scripts to do the changes you mention.
>
> That seems like a bit much just to allow several FTP accounts
> to access my system
I was talking about all of the changes you wanted to do.
> >I would recommend that you do C language development on a
> >standard RedHat system rather than the e-smith server.
> ... you will also decrease the security of the system.
> I would assume this means that I would be comprimising the
> security of the system internally only as external users do
> not have telnet or any other access (unless i add ftp) and
> I am in no way concerned internally. I do not plan to do
> development but to compile some extra packages and have no
> other Linux machines here on premises.
The decrease in security was "in theory" - if there is a compiler on your system there are a few more ways that security can be attacked after some access to the system is gained by exploiting a flow in one of the daemons.
If you have no other linux systems available then you can compile on the e-smith server, but you will need to add quite a number of packages to do so. I would still recommend that you find another system, and make rpms on it.
Charlie
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