On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 01:21:20PM +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > Patrick Chiang wrote: > > Almost all people will suggest me to turn off those unnecessnary > > services after installation, but what kind of services should be > > considered as "uncessnary"? > > Edward wrote: > > I'd just like to say this is a very good question, and one I've often > > pondered myself. .... > > Does anyone know of a list which specifically lists all services, what > > they do, and typical people that would/wouldn't need them? > > Normally, a combination of looking at the first few lines of the script > (e.g. > $ head /etc/init.d/cpuspeed ..... > # description: Run dynamic CPU speed daemon First off, run these from a command line: # service --status-all and # chkconfig --list This will give you a list of all the services and their status. IMO, We should not have to look at the scripts. If you find something in the output of these two that does not have a man page post a question here. (man -k something; apropos something). Those of us that know what the service is should answer and one of us should bugzilla a man page request. With a little discussion we should be able to discover what it is that people need to know and some context to make the description and discussion in the new man page valuable to the new user. Some of us have seen the glossary entry for "recursion" (see recursion). While clever this is not informative for those that do not know what recursion is. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Just say no to 74LS73 in 2004
