Re: misc/53740: Guideline needed on what services / jobs should be "on" by default

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

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From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/53740: Guideline needed on what services / jobs should be
 "on" by default
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:09:53 +0100

 If you look at a freshly installed system (and did not use the sysinst
 configure menu to enable additional stuff) you will see
 
  - NO network facing services enabled by default
    (this is why sshd is off)
 
  - there are some security audit scripts running every night
 
  - a few housekeeping jobs are done depending on their importance
    (or expected freqency of changes): newsyslog hourly, calendar daily,
    a few others weekly, like man page index, locate database 
 
 All this is tunable.
 
 This all assumes a machine that is always running which is bad in a world
 of notebooks that get powered down or suspended over night. It works pretty
 well for servers.
 
 Martin