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A comment on OpenBSD 5.9.

Re:OpenBSD 5.9 by jrcii on Friday April 15, 2016 @08:49PM (#11508695)
Hilariously these releases are apparently accompanied by songs with choruses that make reference to "secure by default" http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song59b.mp3

To me, there's nothing quite like the feeling OpenBSD offers you of running `ps -ax` and seeing a nice, clean, minimal list of essential processes.

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Re:OpenBSD 5.9 by Esau on Friday April 15, 2016 @09:01PM (#11508736)
It is the same with NetBSD, which I love, although it annoys me that Inetd is turned on by default.
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Re:OpenBSD 5.9 by wsfull on Friday April 15, 2016 @10:31PM (#11509017)
Generally, very little is "turned on by default" which sets this OS apart.

Where are you getting your rc.conf?

This looks reasonably conservative: 1 line.

/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-6/src/etc/rc.conf:

rc_configured=NO

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Re:OpenBSD 5.9 by qbrass on Saturday April 16, 2016 @04:51AM (#11509877)
You're looking in /etc/rc.conf instead of /etc/defaults/rc.conf
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Re:OpenBSD 5.9 by Esau on Saturday April 16, 2016 @05:41PM (#11512370)
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf...
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