Timothy Murphy wrote: > On the other hand, there are a large number of services running > on modern systems whose purposes are shrouded in mystery for me, > and I would imagine most users. > I see from "chkconfig --list" that I have 37 services running, > 17 of which are complete mysteries to me. > Could I safely turn off rpcgssd? Who knows. > Well, you could look at /etc/init.d/rpcgssd and find: # description: Starts user-level daemon that manages RPCSEC GSS contexts \ # for the NFSv4 client. If you are not using NFS version 4, then you do not need it running. Each service listed by chkconfig should have a description in corresponding file in /etc/init.d, or if they are listed as services controlled by xinetd, they will be in /etc/xinetd.d. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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