CentOS - Jun 2005 - advice on removing these daemons from server - rpc.statd rpc.idmapd acpid

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

On 6/1/05, Robert Hanson <roberth at abbacomm.net>
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
> 
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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. 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.

take care 
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Robert Hanson 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
>
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