AIX Hardening

[drhaggett]

I was asked to investigate getting rid of srcmstr but when I axed the srcmstr daemon a whole bunch of weird stuff happened, I cannot find alot of documentation on what subsystems are or are not dependent on this daemon.<br>
Any suggestions or info would help.<br>
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Holy hardening

 

[MikeLacey]

I suggest you reinstate srcmstr immediately, it's the System Resource Controller, below is a bit of the man page.<br>
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It seems to be a general resource controller and I don't think you can get away without running it.<br>
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Regards<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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-- from the AIX man page --<br>
srcmstr Daemon<br>
<br>
Purpose<br>
<br>
Starts the System Resource Controller.<br>
<br>
Syntax<br>
<br>
srcmstr /usr/sbin/srcmstr<br>
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Description<br>
<br>
The srcmstr daemon is the System Resource Controller (SRC). The srcmstr daemon spawns and controls subsystems, handles short subsystem status requests, passes requests on to a subsystem, and handles error notification.<br>
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The srcmstr daemon is normally started by using an inittab file entry. <p>Mike Lacey<br><a href=mailto:Mike_Lacey@Cargill.Com>Mike_Lacey@Cargill.Com</a><br><a href=

http://www.cargill.com/>

Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>