[CentOS] Processes to disable

[Bogdan Nicolescu]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com>
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 6:02:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Processes to disable
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:21, David Lemcoe wrote:
> > a bunch of processes that really aren't needed
> 
> Yes, many processes started in a default installation are not needed,
> but they are not harmful at all, and in most cases they will not bring
> you any problems.
> 
> On the other hand, if you start disabling processes, you might get
> into trouble and not know exactly why. So, especially if you are *not*
> a more experienced CentOS user, I would advise you against disabling
> processes that you do not know if you need or not. As I said, if you
> don't really need them, they will probably not be harmful to you.
> 
> > and just burn up processes.
> 
> This is a very silly argument, it's not like you have a low limit of
> total number of processes in your system, and so far I have never seen
> anyone reach that limit.
> 
> > Which ones should I get rid of for just a webserver? MySQL server?
> 
> If you do not plan to run MySQL server on a machine, then yes, you
> should disable it, but in that case you should not even have installed
> the RPM package to start with. In that case, the way I would advise
> you to disable it is to uninstall the RPM.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 16:29, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote:
> > to disable/enable a service:
> > chkconfig --level service-name off/on
> > i.e.
> > chkconfig --level 3 sshd off
> > Disables sshd for levels 3
> > chkconfig --level 35 sshd on
> > Enables sshd for level 3 and 5
> 
> Never use the --level argument unless you have very specific needs.
> 
> You should use:
> 
> chkconfig sshd off
> 
> And:
> 
> chkconfig sshd on
> 
> The service initialization files have a list of "default" runlevels,
> which will probably make more sense than anything you specify.
>

http://www.phpman.info/index.php/man/chkconfig/8

Maybe the chkconfig man pages can be revised to include "Never use the --level argument unless you have very specific needs"  because "The service initialization files have a list of "default" runlevels, which will probably make more sense than anything you specify."

> > To see the names of all the services installed on your system:
> > ls /etc/rc.d/init.d
> 
> Using 'chkconfig --list' makes more sense than listing the init.d directory.
> 

chkconfig --list doesn't necessarily list all the services in /etc/rc.d/init.d

bn


> HTH,
> Filipe
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