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>3.9. Select Individual Package - Part 'A'</A
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>The installation program presents a list of the package groups available. Select a group to examine.
                 The components listed below must be deselected from the Menu Group for security; optimization and other reasons
                 described below:
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>&#13;

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> Applications/File:. </B
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>git</B
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>&#13;                 The GIT package provides an extensible file system browser, an ASCII/hexadecimal file viewer, a process viewer/killer
                 and other related utilities and shell scripts. <EM
>Unnecessary.</EM
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><B
>finger</B
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><DD
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>&#13;                 The finger package is a client utility, which allows users to see information about system users. <EM
>Security risks.</EM
>
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><B
>ftp</B
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><P
>&#13;                 The ftp package provides the standard UNIX command-line FTP client. <EM
>Security risks.</EM
>
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><B
>fwhois</B
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><DD
><P
>&#13;                 The fwhois client program allows for querying whois databases. <EM
>Security risks.</EM
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><B
>ncftp</B
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>&#13;                 The Ncftp package is an improved FTP client. [Security risks, <EM
>Unnecessary.</EM
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><B
>rsh</B
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                 The rsh package provides client programs, which allows users to run commands on remote machines, login
                 to other machines and copy files between machines (rsh, rlogin and rcp). <EM
>Security risks.</EM
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><B
>rsync</B
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><P
>&#13;                  rsync is very powerfull mirroring program, which brings very quickly remote and host files into sync.  <EM
>Unnecessary</EM
>
                 </P
></DD
><DT
><B
>talk</B
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><DD
><P
>&#13;                 The ntalk package provides client and daemon programs for the Internet talk protocol, which allows you
                 to chat with other users on different UNIX systems. <EM
>Security risks.</EM
>
                 </P
></DD
><DT
><B
>telnet</B
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><DD
><P
>&#13;                 Telnet is a popular protocol for logging into remote systems over the network but it is insecure (transfer password
                 in plain text). <EM
>Security risks.</EM
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>ghostscript</B
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>The GhostScript package is a set of software that provides a PostScript interpreter, and an interpreter
                   for Portable Document Format <SPAN
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>PDF files</SPAN
>. <EM
>Unnecessary</EM
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><B
>ghostscript-fonts</B
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>The GhostScript interpreter can use the Ghostscript-fonts package during text rendering. <EM
>Unnecessary.</EM
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>The groff-perl package is a set of commands and print filter used in printer environment. <EM
>Unnecessary,
                 no printer installed on the server.</EM
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> <SPAN
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> mpage</SPAN
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                 </B
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>&#13;                 The mpage package utility takes plain text files or PostScript documents as input, reduces the size of the text, and prints the
                 files on a PostScript printer with several pages on each sheet of paper. <EM
>Unnecessary, no printer installed on the server</EM
>
                 </P
></DD
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> <SPAN
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> pnm2ppa</SPAN
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                 </B
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><DD
><P
>&#13;                 The pnm2ppa package is a color driver for printing to HP PPA printers. <EM
>Unnecessary, no printer installed on the server.</EM
>
                 </P
></DD
><DT
><B
>rhs-printfilters</B
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><DD
><P
>&#13;                 The rhs-printfilters package contains a set of print filters, which is primarily meant to be use with the Red Hat printtool.
                 <EM
>Unnecessary, no printer installed on the server</EM
>
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><B
>arpwatch</B
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><DD
><P
>&#13;                 The arpwatch package contains utilities to monitor Ethernet or FDDI network traffic and build databases of Ethernet/IP address
                 pairs. <EM
>Unnecessary</EM
>
                 </P
></DD
><DT
><B
>bind-utils</B
></DT
><DD
><P
>&#13;                 The bind-utils package contains a collection of utilities to find out information about Internet hosts. We will compile it later on
                 this book.
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                 </B
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>&#13;                 The knfsd-clients package contains the showmount program that queries the mount daemon on a remote host for information about the NFS
                 server on the remote host. <EM
>Security risks, and NFS services are not installed on this server.</EM
>
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> <SPAN
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> procinfo</SPAN
>
                 </B
></DT
><DD
><P
>&#13;                 The procinfo package acquires information about your system from the kernel as it is running. <EM
>Unnecessary, other methods exist.</EM
>
                 </P
></DD
><DT
><B
>rdate</B
></DT
><DD
><P
>&#13;                 The rdate package utility can retrieve the date and time from another machine on your network. <EM
>Security risks.</EM
>
                 </P
></DD
><DT
><B
>rdist</B
></DT
><DD
><P
>&#13;                 The rdist package is a program that maintains identical copies of files on multiple hosts. <EM
>Security risks.</EM
>
                 </P
></DD
><DT
><B
>screen</B
></DT
><DD
><P
>&#13;                 This screen package is a useful utility for users who telnet into a machine or are connected via a dumb terminal, but want to use more than just one
                 login. <EM
>Unnecessary</EM
>
                 </P
></DD
><DT
><B
><SPAN
CLASS="application"
>ucd-snmp-utils</SPAN
></B
></DT
><DD
><P
>&#13;                 The <SPAN
CLASS="application"
> ucd-snmp-utils</SPAN
> package contains various utilities for use with the ucd-snmp network management project. <EM
>Unnecessary, Security risks</EM
>
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>&#13;                 The indexhtml package contains the <SPAN
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>HTML</SPAN
> page and graphics for a welcome page shown
                 by your Web browser into X Window Systems. <EM
>Unnecessary,we don't use graphical interface.</EM
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