[rhelv6-list] Matahari required?

[Tom G. Christensen]

On 03/07/12 10:25, Paul Reilly wrote:
> I want to build a minimal headless RHEL 6.3 system with as few services
> running as possible.
> I see the qpidd service is running as default now, which must be part of
> Matahari
>
qpid is not part of matahari, but matahari requires a message broker and 
by default that is qpid.

> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5672 <http://0.0.0.0:5672>
> 0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      4908/qpidd
>
> Is it OK to turn this off?

If you don't need an AMQP message broker running, then yes.

> Is it OK to remove matahari?
>
Yes, the RHEL 6.3 releasenotes even encourages you to do so.

You should read the RHEL 6.3 Technical Notes section 3.12, it covers the 
deprecation of matahari.

-tgc