On 09/03/06 12:44 +0530, 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. 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.
Define inbound?
iptables -P OUTPUT DROP
Devdas Bhagat