Re: [CentOS] Looking for a list of default services to disable in centos 5

Martin Suehowicz wrote:

I am looking for a list of services that you disable by default on your server.

For the packages I install on my systems this is what I disable by default on CentOS 5.2 in kickstart -

cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Turn off unneeded services in advance ## ############################################################################### EOF

export SERVICES="anacron atd auditd avahi-daemon cpuspeed cups gpm haldaemon ip6tables iptables iscsi iscsid iscsid kudzu lm_sensors mcstrans mdmonitor mess agebus pcscd readahead_early restorecond rpcgssd rpcidmapd xfs yum-updatesd"

for service in $SERVICES; do chkconfig --level 12345 $service off; chkconfig --list $service; done

For CentOS 4.6 -

cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Turn off unneeded services in advance ## ############################################################################### EOF

export SERVICES="anacron atd auditd autofs cpuspeed cups gpm haldaemon iptables kudzu lm_sensors mdmonitor messagebus rawdevices rhnsd rpcgssd rpcidmapd xfs "

for service in $SERVICES; do chkconfig --level 12345 $service off; chkconfig --list $service; done

Depending on what the server does, the service may get re-enabled again automatically by cfengine after the system boots up, of the services above the only one I recall that ever gets re-enabled is iscsi(only on a few systems). I also have cfengine force shut down all of those services every day at around 2PM in case someone were to start one up by accident and forget about it.

Of course there are many more services available in CentOS, the above just comes from the package list I install.

nate