[rescue] IRIX 6.5 on an Indy

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

It goes without saying that any release of Unix should have all unecessary
services turned off (daemons that start with init scripts, inetd.conf,
etc).  Countless holes exist in applications/services many people don't
even need to run.

Running a firewall in front of a box, or filter it's TCP/IP stack on the
box is always good as well.

This stuff is all true for new as well as old UNIX boxes (or pretty much
any internet aware OS :-) ).

-- Curt

>Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 18:03:12 -0500
>From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] IRIX 6.5 on an Indy
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>On Fri, 16 May 2003, Kevin wrote:
>
>> Is anyone here running IRIX 6.5 on an Indy (R5K 180mhz, 128
>> RAM)?
>
>I'm running IRIX 6.5 on an R4600SC/133 Indy with 32MB of memory, and it
>runs great, so long as I don't run X.  It just doesn't have enough
>memory to deal with X, but it makes a great programming workstation.
>
>> I know 5.3 was more along the lines of what it was designed for,
>> but i'd like to know if 6.5 has worked acceptably for anyone here.
>
>If you decide to go with 5.3, DO NOT expose that machine to the public
>Internet.  There are many well-known and easily-exploited holes for 5.3.
>
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