On Sun, 20 May 2007 18:45:29 -0400 Eric <spamsink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One of the very first things I do with any new installation is click on > System->Services and de-select everything I don't need... from both > Runlevel 5 and Runlevel 3, the latter being because I also often edit > /etc/inittab to tell it to start up in text mode rather than X mode (then I > can run startx when I want to). Yea, in fact I keep thinking about writing a script to do what I do manually - run chkconfig --list, grep for everything that says ':on', then do an rpm -q -i -f /etc/rc.d/init.d/service and read the description of what the heck this silly service is all about. That gives me a chance to clobber all the stuff I don't use like ISDN, bluetooth, Chinese input methods, etc. by running chkconfig --levels to turn it off. Then I have the much smaller and simpler task of turning on the services I want that are off by default (basically just the reverse of the 1st pass through chkconfig).
