On 4/24/2012 7:22 PM, listmail wrote: > I a working on configuring a not-quite minimal installation of CentOS 6.2. I > tried doing the "minimal" installation available with the installer, but it's > a bit too minimal to be useful. So I'm cutting down from a less minimal > starting place. I'm pretty familiar with 5.x, but what I'm finding in 6.2 is a > lot of new stuff, and a lot of odd behavior. For example, cups is starting at > boot time, despite being disabled by chkconfig. And I'm finding things like > qpidd, matahari, messagebus, and portreserve that really don't belong in a > minimal setup. > > To clarify, I'm shooting for a simple config, like one would use for a > dedicated DNS server. > > Can anyone point me to an up-to-date list of daemon processes that indicates > what they do and whether they can be safely disabled? Also, any ideas as to > what would be launching cups would be appreciated. I did a 'basic server' for my dns and then did this for cleaning up... yum install yum-cron logwatch bind bind-chroot yum-cron remove packages yum remove samba-winbind-clients qpid-cpp-client matahari* cups the two clients will get rid of a lot. chkconfig atd off chkconfig autofs off chkconfig kdump off chkconfig netfs off chkconfig nfslock off chkconfig rpcidmapd off chkconfig rpcgssd off chkconfig rpcbind off I left the rest on but that pretty much did it for me.. here is my chkconfig list, off and on /root$ chkconfig --list |grep "3:on" abrt-ccpp 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off abrt-oops 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off abrtd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off acpid 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off auditd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off cpuspeed 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off ip6tables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off irqbalance 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off lvm2-monitor 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off mcelogd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off mdmonitor 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off messagebus 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off named 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off portreserve 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off postfix 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off rsyslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off sysstat 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off udev-post 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off yum-cron 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off /root$ chkconfig --list |grep "3:off" atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off autofs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off certmonger 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off cgconfig 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off cgred 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off kdump 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off netconsole 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off nfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off nfslock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off ntpdate 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off oddjobd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off psacct 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off quota_nld 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off rdisc 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off restorecond 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off rngd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off rpcbind 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off rpcgssd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off rpcidmapd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off rpcsvcgssd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off saslauthd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off smartd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off sssd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off ypbind 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off