On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 13:10 -0400, Elliot Lee wrote: > I think you'll find that some of those will break stuff if they get > turned off. And others do useful stuff. And a few can be turned off. > But don't just do a blanket disable because you're not sure that > they're useful... > umm, no they won't. isdn, pcmcia, apmd and microcode_ctl won't hurt anything rawdevices is really only used by oracle. atd only matters for things using at queuing - if we have something doing that we should find it and stop it. anacron - bah! and ick dbus and hal only matter if we were using of the network fun, which we're not. They matter more in the future but they don't right now and on rhel4 boxes it's all kudzu-riffic, still. cups - obviously - no acpid - has some meaning in the event we have acpi devices that need to be negotiated with for different system power states - not on these boxes, though. xfs - if there is no x the the x font server matters not. > > xinetd > > Only turn this on if we actually use anything that requires it? xinetd - obvious > > > > arptables_jf > > Have or will we ever use this? We aren't controllowing which arp requests/replies are going on so this doesn't matter. I've turned off each and every one of these one my servers without fault. -sv
