Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On the other hand, there are a large number of services running
> on modern systems whose purposes are shrouded in mystery for me,
> and I would imagine most users.
> I see from "chkconfig --list" that I have 37 services running,
> 17 of which are complete mysteries to me.
> Could I safely turn off rpcgssd? Who knows.
> 
Well, you could look at /etc/init.d/rpcgssd and find:

# description: Starts user-level daemon that manages RPCSEC GSS
contexts \
#              for the NFSv4 client.

If you are not using NFS version 4, then you do not need it running.
Each service listed by chkconfig should have a description in
corresponding file in /etc/init.d, or if they are listed as services
controlled by xinetd, they will be in /etc/xinetd.d.

Mikkel
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  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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