Fedora 10 Live CD services (all necessary?)

[Valent Turkovic]

> This is pretty much what is followed already. If a service is enabled by
> default, it is usually there for a good reason.
>
> Rahul

I'm posting a revised list of services which maybe could be disabled
by default on Fedora Desktop Live CD, please correct me if I'm wrong.

anacron         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
atd             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

Are schedulers needed for a Desktop system? When?

avahi-daemon    0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

Needed only for print discovery? Ok this could maybe useful for some
people. I searched the places where avahi is discussed any only time
avahi is mentioned it is for network printer discovery. I haven't got
a clue how to use avahi and I manually configure all network printers
I use, but that is me :) So this service is could be useful in desktop
usage, so it should stay enabled.



fedora-late-live        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
fedora-live     0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

I believe that these services could be disabled after Live CD is
installed, are there benefits for enabling these services?




irqbalance      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

This service should be disabled if system uses single core CPU,
otherwise it should be enabled.



kerneloops      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

Not sure why is this service needed :) So until somebody tells me what
is this benefit of this service to Desktop users it stays on the list
:) I didn't find almost no mention of this service on fedora-devel
list... strange...


mdmonitor       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

If system isn't using lvm or raid this service should be disabled.



netfs           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
nfslock         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

These service should be disabled, I don't see that Desktop users need NFS...


ntpd            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

Disabled by default, and if somebody needs it and know that it is used
for he can enable it.


portreserve     0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
"The portreserve program aims to help services with well-known ports
that lie in the bindresvport() range (currently 600-1023). It prevents
programs requesting a port to the libc from occupying a real service's
port by occupying it itself, until the real service tells it to
release the port (generally in its init script)."

Not sure if this is needed for Desktop users...


rpcbind         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
rpcgssd         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
rpcidmapd       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

NFS is not used on Desktop, maybe on the servers, so what do you think
- could these services be disabled by default for Desktop systems?


sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

ok, this is useful if somebody is more advances user and looks for
logs and emails on his local system. I saw in earlier discussion that
somebody said that sendmail isn't installed anymore on Live CD - well
on Fedora 10 beta it is...
There was also a loooot of talk using/not using and about replacing
send mail with other (ssmtp) program. So I left it here but please
ignore it and don't comment it because in other discussions it was
said enough about sendmail :)


Cheers,
Valent.

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