CentOS - Apr 2009 - Processes to disable

I was told by some more-experienced Cent users that there are a bunch
of processes I should kill and get out of the startup folder. He said
that Cent (even with a small install) has a bunch of processes that
really aren't needed and just burn up processes. Which ones should I
get rid of for just a webserver? MySQL server?

Thanks.

Hi David,

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:21 PM, David Lemcoe <forum at lemcoe.com>
wrote:
> I was told by some more-experienced Cent users that there are a bunch
> of processes I should kill and get out of the startup folder. He said
> that Cent (even with a small install) has a bunch of processes that
> really aren't needed and just burn up processes. Which ones should I
> get rid of for just a webserver? MySQL server?
Depends on what you've installed and what you need.

Serviceconf is a nice way of graphically checking what background and
on-demand services are configured for your system and what they are.

If you don't need MySQL or Web servers, you should have not installed
them from start. :-)

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Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org

David Lemcoe wrote on Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:21:02 -0400:
> Which ones should I
> get rid of for just a webserver?
Quite simple: the ones you don't need. The one who knows this best is you.
I think there may be some hints on the wiki about what specific services 
do. I'm sure that those "more-experienced Cent users" can help you
in
this, too.
Also, deducing from all the questions coming lately from you you may be 
better off by installing Webmin and administering that way. Webmin does 
also have a short description for most daemons.

Btw, the OS is called "CentOS". Cent is a currency unit.

Kai

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Hello,

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:21, David Lemcoe <forum at lemcoe.com>
wrote:
> a bunch of processes that really aren't needed
Yes, many processes started in a default installation are not needed,
but they are not harmful at all, and in most cases they will not bring
you any problems.

On the other hand, if you start disabling processes, you might get
into trouble and not know exactly why. So, especially if you are *not*
a more experienced CentOS user, I would advise you against disabling
processes that you do not know if you need or not. As I said, if you
don't really need them, they will probably not be harmful to you.
> and just burn up processes.
This is a very silly argument, it's not like you have a low limit of
total number of processes in your system, and so far I have never seen
anyone reach that limit.
> Which ones should I get rid of for just a webserver? MySQL server?
If you do not plan to run MySQL server on a machine, then yes, you
should disable it, but in that case you should not even have installed
the RPM package to start with. In that case, the way I would advise
you to disable it is to uninstall the RPM.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 16:29, Bogdan Nicolescu <bo2k2 at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> to disable/enable a service:
> chkconfig --level <levels> service-name off/on
> i.e.
> chkconfig --level 3 sshd off
> Disables sshd for levels 3
> chkconfig --level 35 sshd on
> Enables sshd for level 3 and 5
Never use the --level argument unless you have very specific needs.

You should use:

chkconfig sshd off

And:

chkconfig sshd on

The service initialization files have a list of "default" runlevels,
which will probably make more sense than anything you specify.
> To see the names of all the services installed on your system:
> ls /etc/rc.d/init.d
Using 'chkconfig --list' makes more sense than listing the init.d
directory.

HTH,
Filipe