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Re: disable NV WEB SERVER

1999-11-16 07:26:32
Subject: Re: disable NV WEB SERVER
From: John Creasey <creasey AT OZEMAIL.COM DOT AU>
To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:26:32 +1100
Yes not only is it started when you start the gui,
it is started _every_ time you start the gui.
So after a while you can find dozens of them sitting there
chewing up resources.

Personally I find this fairly apalling.
It is also worth noting that the netview webserver is (according to
our security scanning programs at least) based
on an old version of apache.  Of course it's a version that just
happens to have several security vulnerabilities, so by running it
you are possibly compromising your box.

Very nice.  I might be worried about it if it actually worked.
So far I think I've only seen it behave sensibly once.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
> [mailto:NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU]On Behalf Of Stefan.Beck AT HVBINFO DOT 
> COM
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 1999 00:05
> To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
> Subject: AW: disable NV WEB SERVER
>
>
> The Netview Web Server is started automatically in the
> netview/nv6000 script
> in /usr/OV/bin when you open the gui.
>
> (naturally root can start the NetView Web Server via
> GUI->Administer->NetView Web Interface->Start Web Server. If
> you want this
> menu to disappear (for any reason), you'll have to move
> /usr/OV/registration/C/webquery.reg out of the registration tree.)
>
> That's what I've done at our site:
> I commented out the following line in /usr/OV/bin/netview
> #/usr/OV/web/httpd/NetViewWebServer 2>/dev/null >/dev/null &
>
> I don't know if that's the preferred way, but it works at
> least for me.
>
> Remember that modifications to /usr/OV/bin/netview will (most
> probably) be
> lost after applying patches/updates to NetView !!!
>
> regards
> Stefan Beck
>
>
> > -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von:  Heiko Baumann [SMTP:Heiko_Baumann AT IDG DOT DE]
> > Gesendet am:  Montag, 15. November 1999 13:35
> > An:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
> > Betreff:      disable NV WEB SERVER
> >
> > hello,
> >
> > does anyone know, who to disable the NetView Web server permanently?
> >
> > Thanks a lot, Baumann
>


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