[CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

Sat Jun 19 02:59:42 UTC 2010
Ryan Wagoner <rswagoner at gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Ski Dawg <centos at skidawg.org> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been doing some searching for information about disabling
> services within a CentOS 5.5 install. I have found a few different
> opinions, and wanted to ask for some feedback.
>
> First off, the system is running a LAMP stack to serve a web
> application. It will only be doing email to send occasional messages
> out (sent via the application only). It will not be receiving email
> for any users. It is an CentOS 5.5 (fully updated) install running
> under VMware (esx, I believe). We are not sharing directories via nfs
> or samba (either from or to this virtual machine).
>
> >From my research, the services that I am thinking of turning off are:
> nfs (already off)
> nfslock
> portmap
> rpccgssd
> rpcidmapd
> rpcsvcgssd
> apcid
> apmd
> mdmpd
> mdmonitor
>
> Is there any reason that I need to leave any of these services
> running? Are there others that I should disable as well?
>
> Any feedback about this would be greatly appreciated.
> --
> Doug
>
> Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org)
> ----------------------------------------
> Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
>   -- Steve Wozniak
> _______________________________________________

For my VMware ESXi guests I always turn off the following

bluetooth
hidd
pcscd
smartd

Ryan