F8t3 - Minimal services to run?

[Harald Hoyer]

Keith Roberts wrote:
> What are the minimal system services I need for a 'working' system please?
> 
> I have disabled all services, apart from my own firewall script to 
> populate iptables, and network.
> 
> This system allows me to ping www.grc.com from the command line. I can 
> also start X and KDE, and Konqueror is able to reach remote sites on the 
> net, so no problems in the networking dept.
> 
>> From hitting return in the GRUB menu to a login prompt, it 
> takes 45 seconds to boot. The memory footprint, according to #free -m 
> -s5 is:
> 
>        total        used   free   shared   buffers   cached
> Mem:     489          67    422        0         3       24
> -/+ buffers/cache     39    450
> Swap: 1066             0   1066
> 
> Are there any other services that I need for a basic system please, such 
> as logging?
> 
> I thought I'd try booting a very minimal system, then add services as 
> needed, rather than working from the other perspective of disabling 
> services I might not need.
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Keith Roberts
> 
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You may want:

# iptables
# network
# irqbalance
# rsyslog
# auditd
# cpuspeed
# messagebus
# rpcbind
# rpcidmapd
# nscd
# sshd
# ConsoleKit
# crond
# atd
# avahi-daemon
# cups
# haldaemon
# anacron