Some Fedora 14 nitpicks

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Jan 12 19:12:20 UTC 2011


On 01/12/2011 01:27 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:13:58 -0500
> William Case wrote:
>
>> 2) I found a site that gave me a description and suggestions of which
>> services I should automatically start on boot or login.  Everybody's
>> need is different, but release notes or some Fedora Documentation should
>> outline the use of session manager and services.
> I always run this on a new version of fedora:
>
> chkconfig --list | fgrep ':on'

I do

chkconfig --list > chkconfig.lst

So I have a permanent list that is easy to browse of what services were 
there at install and what their initial status is/ws.  Then I change 
from that.

I am always turning off bluetooth and avahi-daemon.  Sometimes sshd.

> That tells me the names of all the services turned on
> by default. Any that I don't recognize from previous
> experience, I run:
>
> rpm -q -i -f /etc/init.d/<servicename>
>
> Which gives me the description of the rpm that included
> it (of course the trick with using the init file to find
> the rpm will probably break if they switch to systemd
> for real).



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