Upgrade from Dialup to Cable Modem

[Harold Crouch <hcrouch@mchsi.com>]

I have recently evolved from a dial-up internet connection to a
cable-modem connection.  Download speed has increased from 3kb/sec to
180kb/sec.  Life is good!  :-)

My computer is a completely stand-alone box with only one unpriviliged
user, and I have a straight piece of wire running from the cable-modem
to the computer.  A software firewall is up and running, and when I'm
at the console, I frequently see it denying packets.  (I wish I could
get it to drop packets rather than deny them, but I'm still to ignernt
to know how to do that.)  :-(

I have gone through /etc/rcS.d/ and /etc/rc2.d/ and disabled
everything that I think is unnecessary, starting with inetd.  I'm
thinking about reloading Bastille, but the last time I played with
that app, it locked down my computer so tightly that I could hardly do
anything interesting as an unpriviliged user.  

Would you guys review the remaining files in my auto-start directories
and let me know if you see anything else that should be removed.

Thanks,
- Harold


/etc/rcS.d/
  S05initrd-tools.sh
  S05keymap.sh
  S09scsitools-pre.sh
  S10checkroot.sh
  S15isapnp
  S18hwclockfirst.sh
  S20modutils
  S22scsitools.sh
  S30checkfs.sh
  S30etc-setserial
  S30procps.sh
  S35devpts.sh
  S35mountall.sh
  S36discover
  S39dns-clean
  S39ifupdown
  S39pppstatus-clean
  S40hostname.sh
  S40networking
  S41firewall
  S45mountnfs.sh
  S46setserial
  S48console-screen.sh
  S50hwclock.sh
  S55bootmisc.sh
  S55urandom
  S70nviboot
  S70xfree86-common
  S75sudo

/etc/rc2.d/
  S10sysklogd
  S11klogd
  S20lprng
  S20makedev
  S20privoxy
  S21aumix
  S89cron
  S99rmnologin

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