On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 16:06 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > there are a large number of services running > on modern systems whose purposes are shrouded in mystery for me, > and I would imagine most users. > I see from "chkconfig --list" that I have 37 services running, > 17 of which are complete mysteries to me. This sort of thing is a frequently asked question, and less frequently answered question. Post a query in a more appropriate separate thread about pruning off unnecessary services, and you'll do yourself, and a few others, quite a favour with the answers you receive. I've turned off things based on the descriptions, and knowing that I don't make use of what they offer. There's been the odd one or two thing, over time, that I've not been sure about. One thing that I don't get is why we have the NFS4 services installed, and many of its parts on by default, but nothing seems to use them, by default (e.g. autofs). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
