El mi?, 01-06-2005 a las 20:33 +0300, Nikos Zaharioudakis escribi?: > On 6/1/05, Robert Hanson <roberth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > greetings, > > > > is there any reason i would want any of these daemons active in memory on a > > simple DNS server if i do not use NFS and... of course, the unit is not > > being used as a workstation. > > > > 1712 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.statd > > 1745 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.idmapd > > 1813 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid > > > > tia > > > > - rh > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > of course not. Make sure they are stopped. > then check out what else should not be running there. I believe your > server boots at runlevel 3 so > chkconfig --list |grep 3:on > now you see what starts up on boot. use the chkconfig tool or ntsysv > to disable what should not start on boot. I recommend not just disable, I think the rigth way is delete the service script. By example: chkconfig --del portmap > Then reboot the system at an > appropriate time and make sure all is well. What you should have > thought from the beginning is the fact that since it is gonna be a > simple DNS server, you shouldn't have installed anything else. The > less stuff you install, the less time you need to disable and the less > threat you have someone will make bad use of installed (but let to the > defaults) software you have there. > I'm agree with you, personally I used to do a minimal installation and then start to adding the packages what I need. Of this way I have a better control of what is installed. > take care Greetings -- Hardy Beltran Monasterios hardy at acm dot org http://www.hardy.com.bo Usuario Linux #50949 - http://counter.li.org La Paz, Bolivia