[CentOS] server install and software config advise please

Tue Aug 30 13:40:49 UTC 2005
Donald Murray, P.Eng. <donaldm314 at gmail.com>

On 8/30/05, Greg Knaddison <greg.knaddison at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 8/29/05, Robert Hanson <roberth at abbacomm.net> wrote:
> > can anyone please comment on the rest of these please? i mean, what is 
> some
> > of this unrecognizable stuff??... at least for me eh?
> 
> 
> chkconfig --list | awk '{print $1}' | man
> 
> I know that doesn't work, but my point is: Take the list you made,
> identify the items you don't know, "man" them.
> 
> For those that don't make sense, use a search engine to find the home
> page and read about it.
> 
> Still lost on some, ask about that remaining list of packages. Asking
> directly may be easier, but it won't help at 3:00 AM when the server
> crashes because rpcsvcgssd is hogging all CPU because it freaked out
> and you don't know if you can shut it off safely...
> 
> Regards,
> Greg
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This is a little closer to your intent, Greg:

for daemon in $( chkconfig --list | awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/://' ); do man 
$daemon; done

The sed accounts for xinetd services.

Of course, not every daemon has a man page....
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