controlling "background services", closing ports

[Josh Bressers]

> 
> I recently installed fedora core 5 on  two systems.
> 
> Is the system/administration/services GUI thing discussed in the
> documentation somewhere? (I can't seem to find anything except selinux.) I'd
> like to know a bit more about what the consequences of turning off some
> services might be. There is a terse description available in the tool, but
> it doesn't make it clear what will happen if I turn 'em off. For instance, I
> don't really know whether I need to "Listen and dispatch ACPI events from
> the kernel. (acpid)" Hate to just turn them all off & see what breaks.
> 
> Also, I'm running nmap and lsof to try to figure out my open ports so I can
> close those I don't need and tell the firewall about the ones I do need.
> 
> <...>
> 
> I hope this is the right forum for these questions. Thanks in advance for
> any answers!
> TDB

Hi David,

This list is for the discussion of fedora security issues, such as security
bugs.

If you're looking for help configuring your firewall there are several ways
to find community support detailed here:

http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/communicate/

Thanks and good luck,
-- 
Josh Bressers