Configuration of 'desktop daemons'

[john wendel]

On 08/14/2009 11:28 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> For the last few months I have been running a F10
> system which has some binaries renamed to stop them
> from being run. These include:
>
> /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon-RENAMED
> /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon-RENAMED
> /usr/libexec/gvfsd-RENAMED
> /usr/libexec/gvfs-fuse-daemon-RENAMED
> /usr/libexec/gnome-vfs-daemon-RENAMED
> /usr/libexec/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor-RENAMED
> /usr/libexec/gvfs-hal-volume-monitor-RENAMED
>
> Everything still works fine even without dummy
> replacements, even gphoto2.
>
> The reason I went to such nonstandard measures are
> that I don't run a 'full desktop' but just a window
> manager or a very thin desktop such as WindowMaker.
> I also don't run gdm but xdm.
>
> Consolekit I don't want since I don't need anyone
> managing my 'seats', in particular not a daemon
> that creates 63 useless threads. I also don't want
> any daemons to interfere with security or permissions -
> there are already enough subystems that are doing that.
> Consolekit used to be service in previous Fedoras, but
> today the only way to stop it seems to remove it.
>
> The others are all related to a desktop I don't use,
> and one of them even to a specific application. If
> each and every app starts running daemons like this
> (even before it is started) we'll end up with a
> complete mess.
>
> My question is: where is all of this configured ?
> Which process is launching all those daemons ?
> I scanned all the scripts used by xdm and X11, and
> found no reference to these daemons. They seem to
> be hard-coded somewhere, which is *evil*.
>
> TIA,
>
>


Don't have an answer, I just wanted to thank you for posting. I have 
been wondering how I could stop all this crap from running, didn't think 
about renaming the executables.

And you're right, this is a complete mess.

Regards,

John