I'm upgrading my primary server from RH 7.2 to CentOS-4.3.ServerCD. I REALLY like the ServerCD. Who needs all the fluff that comes with a standard distro? If I want a system-config-gooey I can run Xnest [1] and ssh -X from my laptop. Anyway I have two questions: 1) How can I collectively stop all the NFS, portmap, whatever? I'm hoping it can be manipulated as a group because occationally I actually will want to use NFS. 2) Can I safely turn off dbus, hal, and/or xfs? Or will something really bad happen if I try to run the system-config-gooey's without them? Thanks, Mike [1] Although I haven't managed to figure out how to run it without -ac. PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? S 0:00 init [3] 2 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] 3 ? S< 0:00 [events/0] 4 ? S< 0:00 \_ [khelper] 5 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kacpid] 16 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kblockd/0] 26 ? S 0:00 \_ [pdflush] 27 ? S 0:00 \_ [pdflush] 29 ? S< 0:00 \_ [aio/0] 1055 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kauditd] 1095 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kmirrord] 1096 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kmir_mon] 17 ? S 0:00 [khubd] 28 ? S 0:00 [kswapd0] 103 ? S 0:00 [kseriod] 178 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 980 ? S<s 0:00 udevd 1115 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 1743 ? Ss 0:00 syslogd -m 0 1747 ? Ss 0:00 klogd -x 1774 ? Ss 0:00 portmap 1793 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.statd 1819 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.idmapd 1883 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/smartd 1892 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid 1903 ? Ss 0:00 cupsd 1956 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd 2482 ? Ss 0:00 \_ sshd: root at pts/0 2484 pts/0 Ss 0:00 \_ -bash 2650 pts/0 R+ 0:00 \_ ps fax 1977 ? Ss 0:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid 1992 ? SLs 0:00 ntpd -u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid 2001 ? Ss 0:00 crond 2022 ? Ss 0:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon 2039 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd 2048 ? Ssl 0:00 dbus-daemon-1 --system 2058 ? Ss 0:00 hald 2087 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1 2092 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 2093 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 2094 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 2095 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 2096 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 2625 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/sbin/named -u named -t /var/named/chroot -- Michael B Allen PHP Extension for SSO w/ Windows Group Authorization http://www.ioplex.com/