On Thursday 09 March 2006 12:44 pm, Rony Bill wrote:
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
cant he jsut hack the init script to background the process? It's as simple as adding a & after the command.
The issue is about privacy. I don't want some third party server to know everytime, that I have booted into linux.
You can of course set the time manually. Or install a pci card with a high accuracy clock. But the rest of us security ignorant nitwits simply use ntp servers. After all u would not want the guys in Nasik to be out of sync with their office collegues in Cal.
Anything that goes out of my system should do so with my consent. :) I am quite happy with my local time. In windows I can control what goes out due to the firewall but in linux thats not possible as firewalls are for incoming protection only.
U need to read a lot about iptables. U can block/shape/drop/redirect incoming/outgoing ips/hosts/subnets/ports. Never new that windoze had firewall infrastructure in the kernel. I thought that it was an addon user space program.