Ok - I wanted to post in the newbie section to hopefully avoid being blasted me'ah, but I am really struggling with this.

I am working on a network services list of what will be turned 'on' on a *nix server and what will be turned 'off.' For those who have not seen my posts before, our shop me'ah is mostly HPUX, but we also have Sun, AIX, Irix, Linux. So what I am wondering is:

1) If there is or should be, a difference in what network services are turned off or left on between various flavors of *nix (including Linux).

An example would be echo. It is recommended to turn off that service for HPUX? Does that follow for other flavors of *nix? I am tracking down right now as many resources as I can on this to see if there are noted differences between the different flavors, but everything at this point has been HPUX or just general *nix.

Thanks much in advance!