Too many default services on

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Mon Mar 31 15:02:08 UTC 2008


Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Trying a yum everything install, I found out, that booting now takes endlessly.
>>
>>  # ls /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S*|wc -l
>>  95
>>
>>  Please review, if the packages really need to be "on" after an install.
>>
>>  # for i in  /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S*; do rpm -qf /etc/init.d/${i/*S[0-9][0-9]/};done | sort -u
> <snip>
> 
> You've just installed everything.  I wouldn't be worried about boot
> time as much.  Many of these packages, you would expect that someone
> wil actually use the services they provide.  IE, what's the point of
> installing apache if you are not going to have it run at startup.
> There might be issues about security, but if we can't secure Apache
> anyways, what's the point of including it in Fedora?  My point is, if
> I install apache, it's useless if it's insecure or not running
> anyways, so I fail to see why we want to have it not start up by
> default (possibly in a more than usually secure mode to protect noobs
> from themselves).

err... an unconfigured apache does not need to run.
what is the problem of writing:

# chkconfig --level 3 httpd on
# service httpd start

after you have configured apache properly??




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