[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Service Cleanup

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org
Thu Aug 31 16:06:10 UTC 2006


On 8/31/06, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
> On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:48, Warren Togami wrote:
> > Any objections to blanket disabling of this stuff across all servers?
> >
> > Warren Togami
> > wtogami at redhat.com
> >
> > isdn pcmcia apmd rawdevices microcode_ctl
> >       Utterly useless to us.
> i agree
> > atd anacron
> >       Do we want to keep these?  I've always turned them off personally.
> anacron  could be useful if the boxes are down  when they are supposed to run
> things  but probably not needed.  does anyone use at for anything on the
> servers?
>
> > messagebus haldaemon cups acpid xfs
> >       Only relevant to desktops?
> should be ok,  i have cups on my file and print server  but thats it as far as
> servers go
>
> > xinetd
> >       Only turn this on if we actually use anything that requires it?
> sounds fine to me
> > arptables_jf
> >       Have or will we ever use this?
>
> probably not  if we need it we can re-enable it.
>
> we should definitely have only what we need enabled.  everything else should
> be off.
>
> Dennis
>

There's plenty of stuff running we should disable.  I mean, cups?  CUPS?!?!

           -Mike




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