On 08/14/2009 11:28 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
Hello all, For the last few months I have been running a F10 system which has some binaries renamed to stop them from being run. These include: /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon-RENAMED /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon-RENAMED /usr/libexec/gvfsd-RENAMED /usr/libexec/gvfs-fuse-daemon-RENAMED /usr/libexec/gnome-vfs-daemon-RENAMED /usr/libexec/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor-RENAMED /usr/libexec/gvfs-hal-volume-monitor-RENAMED Everything still works fine even without dummy replacements, even gphoto2. The reason I went to such nonstandard measures are that I don't run a 'full desktop' but just a window manager or a very thin desktop such as WindowMaker. I also don't run gdm but xdm. Consolekit I don't want since I don't need anyone managing my 'seats', in particular not a daemon that creates 63 useless threads. I also don't want any daemons to interfere with security or permissions - there are already enough subystems that are doing that. Consolekit used to be service in previous Fedoras, but today the only way to stop it seems to remove it. The others are all related to a desktop I don't use, and one of them even to a specific application. If each and every app starts running daemons like this (even before it is started) we'll end up with a complete mess. My question is: where is all of this configured ? Which process is launching all those daemons ? I scanned all the scripts used by xdm and X11, and found no reference to these daemons. They seem to be hard-coded somewhere, which is *evil*. TIA,
Don't have an answer, I just wanted to thank you for posting. I have been wondering how I could stop all this crap from running, didn't think about renaming the executables.
And you're right, this is a complete mess. Regards, John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
