Services

[David Curry]

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
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
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.