On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 16:55 -0700, Rob Healey wrote: > Greetings Everyone: > > > I had ran a pstree command to look at what was currently running on my > system. I see some things there that I do not know if they need to be > running based upon something else or not needed? > > > Here is a list of what I do not know about: > * dnsmasq probably you have this installed because of NM or libvirt, and it's being started because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734903 . you can almost certainly safely disable it, but probably not uninstall. > * fcoemon > * lldpad these go together: fcoe-utils depends (or, rather, depended, it now seems to have gone) on lldpad. anaconda depends on fcoe-utils. so if you originally installed from a live image, and hence have the anaconda package installed, you will have picked these up. you can safely remove them (and anaconda, which you don't need installed) unless you're using fiber channel over ethernet (which is...hem...not likely). > * libsocialweb this is used by gnome-shell for integration with shiny social media thingies, i think. > * mission-control this is part of telepathy, the backend for empathy, which again is a part of GNOME 3. I'd say it ought to be safe to disable it if you don't actually use it, and GNOME should handle that, but I haven't actually tested if it's true. > * modem-manager this is a part of NetworkManager, it handles modems - not just old-skool analog ones, but new-skool cellular modems, those built into some laptops or available as USB devices. I don't know if NM will be okay if you disable it, but you can try. Assuming you don't use any of the above devices, of course. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
