too many deamons by default - F7 test 2 live cd
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Mar 19 10:29:41 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 15:21 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> Been fiddling with a installation of Fedora 7 Test 2 from the Live CD
> and it still enables way too may daemons by default. The following
> deserve special mention.
>
> Hardware specific - Bluetooth (along with hidd), cups (FC6 even had
> smartcard daemon by default). Should check and enable on demand
>
> Definitely superfluous - firstboot, livecd. Should disable after first
> run completely or even remove the packages.
>
> Extra - cpuspeed. mdmonitor, netfs, ntpd, portmap.
No portmap => no nis, no nfs, no rpc.
> Can't see a reason to
> enable these by default.
>
> Default? - Possibly NetworkManagerDispatcher since
> NetworkManager is enabled by default
Disable this. It has never worked for me anywhere and is the first
daemon I disable after FC installs.
> Exim should probably replaced with something like esmtp or ssmtp in the
> live cd. Folks wanting to install a full blown MTA can install sendmail,
> postfix or email on their own.
>
> Comments?
You are scratching on the surface of a weak spot in Fedora.
Ralf
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