F8t3 - Minimal services to run?
Harald Hoyer
harald at redhat.com
Fri Oct 19 11:28:25 UTC 2007
Keith Roberts wrote:
> What are the minimal system services I need for a 'working' system please?
>
> I have disabled all services, apart from my own firewall script to
> populate iptables, and network.
>
> This system allows me to ping www.grc.com from the command line. I can
> also start X and KDE, and Konqueror is able to reach remote sites on the
> net, so no problems in the networking dept.
>
>> From hitting return in the GRUB menu to a login prompt, it
> takes 45 seconds to boot. The memory footprint, according to #free -m
> -s5 is:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 489 67 422 0 3 24
> -/+ buffers/cache 39 450
> Swap: 1066 0 1066
>
> Are there any other services that I need for a basic system please, such
> as logging?
>
> I thought I'd try booting a very minimal system, then add services as
> needed, rather than working from the other perspective of disabling
> services I might not need.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Keith Roberts
>
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You may want:
# iptables
# network
# irqbalance
# rsyslog
# auditd
# cpuspeed
# messagebus
# rpcbind
# rpcidmapd
# nscd
# sshd
# ConsoleKit
# crond
# atd
# avahi-daemon
# cups
# haldaemon
# anacron
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