services running from pstree...

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 16:55 -0700, Rob Healey wrote:
> Greetings Everyone:
> 
> 
> I had ran a pstree command to look at what was currently running on my
> system.  I see some things there that I do not know if they need to be
> running based upon something else or not needed?
> 
> 
> Here is a list of what I do not know about:
> * dnsmasq

probably you have this installed because of NM or libvirt, and it's
being started because of
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734903 . you can almost
certainly safely disable it, but probably not uninstall.

> * fcoemon
> * lldpad

these go together: fcoe-utils depends (or, rather, depended, it now
seems to have gone) on lldpad. anaconda depends on fcoe-utils. so if you
originally installed from a live image, and hence have the anaconda
package installed, you will have picked these up. you can safely remove
them (and anaconda, which you don't need installed) unless you're using
fiber channel over ethernet (which is...hem...not likely).

> * libsocialweb

this is used by gnome-shell for integration with shiny social media
thingies, i think.

> * mission-control

this is part of telepathy, the backend for empathy, which again is a
part of GNOME 3. I'd say it ought to be safe to disable it if you don't
actually use it, and GNOME should handle that, but I haven't actually
tested if it's true.

> * modem-manager

this is a part of NetworkManager, it handles modems - not just old-skool
analog ones, but new-skool cellular modems, those built into some
laptops or available as USB devices. I don't know if NM will be okay if
you disable it, but you can try. Assuming you don't use any of the above
devices, of course.

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