[CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2

[Bob Hoffman]

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