Re: Too many default services on

[Bradley Baetz <bbaetz acm org>]

Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Harald Hoyer <harald redhat com> wrote:
> > Trying a yum everything install, I found out, that booting now takes endlessly.
> >
> >  # ls /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S*|wc -l
> >  95
> >
> >  Please review, if the packages really need to be "on" after an install.
> >
> >  # for i in  /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S*; do rpm -qf /etc/init.d/${i/*S[0-9][0-9]/};done | sort -u
> <snip>
>
> You've just installed everything.  I wouldn't be worried about boot
> time as much.  Many of these packages, you would expect that someone
> wil actually use the services they provide.

There are some brought in by dependancies, though. eg the recent F8 
libvirtd update brings in iscsi-initiator-utils that run an iscsi daemon 
on startup.

(The iscisd int script also runs:

       chkconfig --level 06 network off
        rm /etc/rc0.d/*network
        rm /etc/rc6.d/*network

which may be useful in an iscsi setup, but less so for someone who just 
wants a VM. It also can't/isn't removed if that package is removed, but 
I guess that thats a separate bug....)

Bradley