Ed Morrison wrote:
Hello Everyone:
I inherited a CentOS 4.x box that appears to have been installed with
the everything installation option. I would like to strip the box
down of all the unnecessary apps and streamline/secure it.
Unfortunately, it is a production box and it would be quite
inconvenient to burn down and rebuild. Does anyone have any
suggestions on how to do this conveniently with yum and still leave
the box in a production condition i.e. leave it's needed services up
and running?
Thanks,
Ed
Ed,
I'd venture to guess, the first thing would be to identify what you
don't need, stop the processes that you don't need to run, then use yum
to remove the stuff, or just stop the processes and don't worry about
the software being on the disk unless you really need the space.
Determining what you don't really need or have to have would be the
hardest task, I'm sure, but there might be some dependencies that bite
you along the way as well.
Sam
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