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Which services needed at startup?
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| alBERT 2002-10-13, 9:24 pm |
| I have a single user system connected to the internet by cable modem. I
run no servers, have a single local printer. I have no intentions of
adding or removing any hardware in the forseeable future.
I would like to speed up the boot process by eliminating some of the
services initialized during start up.
What are some services I can turn off, please?
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| Joe Fredrickson 2002-10-13, 11:25 pm |
| On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:58 am, alBERT posted to alt.os.linux the following
blurb ::
> What are some services I can turn off, please?
What might help is if we new what services were actually running!
Just a thought
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remember this is the sequence of events, in no particular order
Registered Linux User 282072
<www.volutin.net -- everything irrelevant>
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| Andrew James 2002-10-14, 1:24 am |
| alBERT wrote:
> I have a single user system connected to the internet by cable modem. I
> run no servers, have a single local printer. I have no intentions of
> adding or removing any hardware in the forseeable future.
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> I would like to speed up the boot process by eliminating some of the
> services initialized during start up.
>
> What are some services I can turn off, please?
I asked the question before and this is what I got:
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> Desktop
> Single user
> No network
> Uses Internet, (web, mail, news etc.)
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> Do I need these services:
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> ipvsadm
> Initialise the Linux Virtual Server
NO.
> portmap
> The portmapper manages RPC connections, which are used by protocols such
> as NFS and NIS. The portmap server must be running on machines which act
> as servers for protocols which make use of the RPC mechanism.
NO.
> random
> Saves and restores system entropy pool for higher quality random number
> generation.
Yes.
> netfs
> Mounts and unmounts all Network File System (NFS), SMB (Lan
> Manager/Windows), and NCP (NetWare) mount points.
NO.
> apmd
> apmd is used for monitoring battery status and logging it via syslog(8).
> It can also be used for shutting down the machine when the battery is
low.
NO.
> saslauthd
> SASL AUTH Daemon
NO.
> rawdevices
> This scripts assignes raw devices to block devices (such as hard drive
> partitions). This is for the use of applications such as Oracle. You can
> set up the raw device to block device mapping by editing the file
> /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices.
Yes (or a good idea anywho).
Q. WTF do you need raw devices on a desktop ?
A. Faster access to your DVD ?
Just an idea.
Xine can use the DVD as a raw device. They say it is faster.
> rwhod
> The rwho protocol lets remote users get a list of all of the users logged
> into a machine running the rwho daemon (similiar to finger).
NO.
> postfix
> Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent, which is the program that moves mail
> from one machine to another.
NO.
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No problems. Gained some speed and security...
You may check this url also for more info on the services:
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/adaemon2.html
Happy Linuxing!
Andrew.
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| e_xung 2002-10-14, 4:24 pm |
| alBERT <afoders@REMOVE_THIScfl.rr.com> wrote in message news:<7xpq9.82606$S8.1347131@twister.tampabay.rr.com>...
> I have a single user system connected to the internet by cable modem. I
> run no servers, have a single local printer. I have no intentions of
> adding or removing any hardware in the forseeable future.
>
> I would like to speed up the boot process by eliminating some of the
> services initialized during start up.
>
> What are some services I can turn off, please?
Have a look here:
http://www.userlocal.com/secdisablingdaemons.shtml
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