Are you running the system updates after that script? I'm not sure about those particular services, but I've noticed some packages have stuff like "ckconfig --add xxx" and so on in the %post section, that will make a mess and it's according to me a bad thing to do, however I've seen such stuff... More things: If you're not using sendmail, ssh... why not simply avoid installing them in the first place (-sendmail, -openssh-server... in %packages). Second are you sure you prefer to use all that r* garbage instead of ssh :)? Carlos