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Comments and suggestions concerning this book should be mailed to gmourani@videotron.ca © Copyright 1999-2000 Gerhard Mourani and Open Network Architecture ® 25 · The Ghostscript-fonts package can be used by the GhostScript interpreter during text rendering. [Unnecessary] · The mpage package utility takes plain text files or PostScript(TM) 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. [Unnecessary, no printer installed on the server] · The rhs-printfilters package contains a set of print filters, which is primarily meant to be use with the Red Hat printtool. [Unnecessary, no printer installed on the server] Applications/System: · The arpwatch package contains utilities to monitor Ethernet or FDDI network traffic and build databases of Ethernet/IP address pairs. [Unnecessary] · The bind-utils package contains a collection of utilities to find out information about Internet hosts. [We will compile it later on this book] · 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. [Security risks, and NFS services are not installed on this server] · The procinfo package acquires information about your system from the kernel as it is running. [Unnecessary, other methods exist] · The rdate package utility can retrieve the date and time from another machine on your network. [Security risks] · The rdist package is a program that maintains identical copies of files on multiple hosts. [Security risks] · The screen package is 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. [Unnecessary] · The ucd-snmp-utils package contains various utilities for use with the ucd-snmp network management project. [Unnecessary, Security risks] Documentation: · The indexhtml package contains the HTML page and graphics for a welcome page shown by your Web browser into X Window Systems. [Unnecessary, we don’t use graphical interface] System Environment/Base: · The chkfontpath package is a simple program for adding, removing and listing the directories contained in the X font server's path. [Unnecessary, we don’t use graphical interface]