Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > Amen. I have been installing Red Hat Linux (and now CentOS) since RH 7. > After installing, I am always astonished at the unneeded services that > upstream has running. Check services, after installing and stop the > services you do not need! > > > Any specific suggestions for relative newbies as to 1) how to list the > services that are running and 2) which ones are generally good > candidates to kill? > > Thanks. > > mhr > > http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=centos+stop+services&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a Third item from the top (anchorite.org) MrKiwi