Re: ENDTCPSVR default of *ALL

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You do know you can change the default, right?

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 8:36 AM Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Every now and then my fingers get faster than my brain.  ENDTCPSVR command
> default is *ALL meaning ALL the TCP servers so, NFS, CIMOM, FTP, HTTP, etc.
> but it also includes Telnet and a few others that are, well, important...
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> About once a year it happens, and it just did.  Fortunately, it was one of
> my own systems and I was the only one on the system but still, it's a
> mistake that should not be made.  I wish IBM would make the default *NONE.
> Maybe a request in the future but in the past, I've been told they don't
> change defaults since that might mess things up for some folks.
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> More of a warning than anything else pointing out that even very
> experienced
> system admins make mistakes and the systems need to be built to protect
> itself.
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> Sounds more like the beginning of an *EXIT program than anything else.
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> Jim Oberholtzer
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