been playing with my host machine and thought some might want to see what I have on and the full list of chkconfig I have installed desktop and x windows system to bring up a desktop when I want one with startx. I turned 'off' quite a bit and yum removed quite a bit. These set of programs still allow full use as a host so far, including the startx desktop. Always afraid to remove or disable something because you 'never know' what might happen. After two reboots this works. This is only the chkconfig list, there are other programs that do not list in chkconfig I guess, but this is just for chkconfig. standalone virtual host, no network file share and all that. Removing or disabling many of the programs like rpc stuff has seriously taken out a lot of the errors in the logs. [root at main ~]# 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 cgconfig 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 ksm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off ksmtuned 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off libvirt-guests 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off libvirtd 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 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 full list [root at main ~]# chkconfig --list NetworkManager 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 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 atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off auditd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off autofs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off avahi-daemon 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:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off cgred 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 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 dnsmasq 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off ebtables 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off firstboot 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 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 iscsi 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off iscsid 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 ksm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off ksmtuned 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off libvirt-guests 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off libvirtd 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 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 network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 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 nscd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off nslcd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 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 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 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 radvd 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 rsyslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 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 sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off sssd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 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 wpa_supplicant 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 yum-cron 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off