Hi; On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 14:12 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 01/12/2011 01:27 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:13:58 -0500 > > William Case wrote: > > > >> 2) I found a site that gave me a description and suggestions of which > >> services I should automatically start on boot or login. Everybody's > >> need is different, but release notes or some Fedora Documentation should > >> outline the use of session manager and services. > > I always run this on a new version of fedora: > > > > chkconfig --list | fgrep ':on' > > I do > > chkconfig --list > chkconfig.lst > > So I have a permanent list that is easy to browse of what services were > there at install and what their initial status is/ws. Then I change > from that. > > I am always turning off bluetooth and avahi-daemon. Sometimes sshd. > > > That tells me the names of all the services turned on > > by default. Any that I don't recognize from previous > > experience, I run: > > > > rpm -q -i -f /etc/init.d/<servicename> > > > > Which gives me the description of the rpm that included > > it (of course the trick with using the init file to find > > the rpm will probably break if they switch to systemd > > for real). > A very good idea. I will keep this suggestion in my personal install notes for the next time I do a virgin install. That deals with various services but doesn't help with the 30 or so programs that are started in gnome-session-properties (the startup session manager). I am sure that about half of them are of no use to me. I have turned about half of them off. I will now have to wait to see which ones I need from startup. None of the 'man' notes suggest that this or that program should be running from the start. -- Regards Bill Fedora 14, Gnome 2.32 Evo.2.32, Emacs 23.2.1 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines