Services

[Martin Sturm]

Mattias Dahlberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There have been many discussions on how to make the startup faster. One of
> the easiest ways is to turn off any services that you don't need. In regard
> to this I wonder about some services that are started by default (even in
> the Personal Desktop setup) and whether it would be possible to detect if
> the user really needs them or not.
> 
> Two examples: pcmcia and isdn. Because pcmcia has always been started by
> default (even on non-laptops) I presume there's no reliable way to detect
> if the computer has pcmcia slots or not? How about isdn, maybe it could be
> included only if a modem has been detected?
> 
> Other services that are on by default: nfslock, sendmail and sshd. Any way
> it could be detected if the user actually needs these? When I installed
> Fedora Core test3 nfs wasn't started, but nfslock was. Maybe sshd could be
> added only if OpenSSH has been configured?
> 
> Just curious.
> 
> Regards,
> Mattias
> 
> 
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NFSLock has no dependency or something like that with the nfs service.
NFS service consists of a NFS-server. NFSlock is also necessary if one
mount NFS drives on the system. It prevent some locking problems
regarding with NFS.

Martin Sturm