On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 15:21 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > Been fiddling with a installation of Fedora 7 Test 2 from the Live CD > and it still enables way too may daemons by default. The following > deserve special mention. > > Hardware specific - Bluetooth (along with hidd), cups (FC6 even had > smartcard daemon by default). Should check and enable on demand > > Definitely superfluous - firstboot, livecd. Should disable after first > run completely or even remove the packages. > > Extra - cpuspeed. mdmonitor, netfs, ntpd, portmap. No portmap => no nis, no nfs, no rpc. > Can't see a reason to > enable these by default. > > Default? - Possibly NetworkManagerDispatcher since > NetworkManager is enabled by default Disable this. It has never worked for me anywhere and is the first daemon I disable after FC installs. > Exim should probably replaced with something like esmtp or ssmtp in the > live cd. Folks wanting to install a full blown MTA can install sendmail, > postfix or email on their own. > > Comments? You are scratching on the surface of a weak spot in Fedora. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
