F8t3 - Minimal services to run?

[Keith Roberts]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Harald Hoyer wrote:

> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> From: Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: F8t3 - Minimal services to run?
> 
> Adam Pribyl wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> 
>>> Keith Roberts wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        total        used   free   shared   buffers   cached
>>>> Mem:     489          67    422        0         3       24
>>>> -/+ buffers/cache     39    450
>>>> Swap: 1066             0   1066
>>>> 
>>>> Are there any other services that I need for a basic system please, 
>>>> such as logging?
>>>> 
>>>> I thought I'd try booting a very minimal system, then add services as 
>>>> needed, rather than working from the other perspective of disabling 
>>>> services I might not need.
>>>> 
>>>> Kind Regards
>>>> 
>>>> Keith Roberts
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> You may want:
>>> 
>>> # iptables
>>> # network
>>> # irqbalance
>>> # rsyslog
>>> # auditd
>>> # cpuspeed
>>> # messagebus
>>> # rpcbind
>>> # rpcidmapd
>>> # nscd
>>> # sshd
>>> # ConsoleKit
>>> # crond
>>> # atd
>>> # avahi-daemon
>>> # cups
>>> # haldaemon
>>> # anacron
>> 
>> This I would like to have more explained. For want purpose you should 
>> run
>> irqbalance on system with minimum devices, auditd on system without 
>> selinux (which I recommend to switch off on system with slow cpu and 
>> low memory). Why cpuspeed on cpu that does not have any of frequency 
>> switching. I'm also in doubt about rpc* and nscd to be really necesary 
>> on browsing machine. Avahi is needed only for file sharing services, so 
>> this is also not essential to run Fedora.
>> 
>>> 
>> Adam Pribyl
>> 
>
> I said "may" :)

Thankyou for all the replies guys - I hope I'm not starting 
a flame war!!

Anyway, I'm Googling and putting together a page of all 
system services that are installed by default, for F8t3, and 
then hope to keep it up to date for each release. This is 
for my own personal benefit. But I'm sure I'll post it 
somewhere on my website for others to check out as well.

There appears to be about 70 services that are installed by 
default, but not all are enabled.

Regards

Keith Roberts

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