Hello all,
I have been doing some searching for information about disabling services within a CentOS 5.5 install. I have found a few different opinions, and wanted to ask for some feedback.
No brainer.
First off, the system is running a LAMP stack to serve a web application. It will only be doing email to send occasional messages out (sent via the application only). It will not be receiving email for any users. It is an CentOS 5.5 (fully updated) install running under VMware (esx, I believe). We are not sharing directories via nfs or samba (either from or to this virtual machine).
From my research, the services that I am thinking of turning off are:
nfs (already off)
service nfs stop chkconfig nfs off
Same for others.
Oh, and if you don't really need it, turn *off* avahi-daemon, and the same for bluetooth, if you don't need it. Also, if you turn off the avahi-daemon, close the port opened in iptables (edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables and delete it, then restart iptables).
mark "in a *server* room? hardwired?"