Services

[John Wendel]

David Curry wrote:

> John Wendel wrote:
> 
>> markf wrote:
>>
>>> Fedora Core 3 seems to have a lot of services running in the default 
>>> configuration.  Which of these are safe to deactivate?  I've got FC3 
>>> set up on an old PII 400 with very little memory, so I'd like to 
>>> eliminate whatever's not necessary.
>>>
>>> Specifically, it safe to disable the following:
>>> readahead
>>> sendmail
>>> xinetd
>>> cpuspeed
>>> nfs_lock
>>> rpc*
>>>
>>> This box wont be using NFS at all, and I can't see any reason why 
>>> sendmail
>>
>>
>> should be running on anything other than a dedicated mailserver.
>> xinetd similarly seems useless on a desktop computer.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> This might be a little extreme, but here are all the services I have 
>> running, For a simple desktop you don't need much. No sendmail and I 
>> don't run cron either. I'm still trying to figure out how to dump xfs.
>>
>> hpoj
>> syslog
>> network
>> cups
>> xfs
>> iptables
>> haldaemon
>> messagebus


> John, I'm pretty sure that one only needs hpoj if one has an HP 
> multifunction Scanner/printer/fax/copier device connected to the system 
> and wants to have access to more than just printing capabilities of the 
> unit.

You're absolutely correct. I probably should have removed hpoj from the 
list to avoid confusion. Sorry.

Regards,

John