qeldroma Posted October 9, 2002 Report Share Posted October 9, 2002 Following the posts to some threads concerning xinetddhcpd fam atd crond anacrond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qeldroma Posted October 9, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2002 me: I don't have any "modern" perepherials like usb, firewire or pcmcia. Do i need them really?? What does xinetd do really?? Be sure i read my own post and the user-doc's. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- tobyl: Are you running any servers? I turn xinetd off as I don't need it, I can still access the internet, email etc. Actually it is more dangerous to have it running if you don't need it. Dunno about the other service you mention. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bluebeard: Do NOT turn off devfshd! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Maciek: FAM (the file modification monitor, used by KDE) depends on xinted. XinetD is very useful with certain servers, such as ftp. XinetD by itself is not dangerous but it can launch potentially dangerous (if malconfigured) servers, such as ftp. Computers alone aren't dangerous, but they can be if they're running Windows Smile The best option would be to uninstall ftp, httpd and other servers you don't need but leave XinetD installed. PS. IMHO it's more important to have a good firewall, such as the easy to use GuardDog or Firestarter, rather than getting rid of servers you may need one day (eg. apache is useful for learning html and php). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- me: Ok, i turned off fam since ever, didn't knew the connection to kde, but did no influence to kde. so there's no really reason for xinetd. I wonder about devfsd, because i am working now without it on two machines, noticing no difference?! Is it just for HOTplugging and firewire?? By the way, harddrake2 doesn't notice my isa-cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qeldroma Posted October 9, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2002 me: Be sure, i read the man's and http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/ I am not sure under LM8.2 if i need them really. I didn't define any scheduled jobs, so there should be only systemthings. But after a deeper look in the /etc/.. files about them, i'm not sure, if LM8.2 really needs them all?! And what about devfsd and xinitd? Are they just for OLDER apps, or do i need them too for an actual Distro? Theese questions are, because i wamt to purge my init-process. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- theYinYeti: xinitd and atd you can do without. devfsd also, if you write devfs=nomount in lilo's append line, but then you'd loose much of kernel 2.4 cool features, mostly related to hot-plug of devices (usb, pcmcia). cron and anacron are used to keep some system indexes up-to-date, eg: the index of all files on the disks, for use by the locate command; if you never use those commands that need index files, then you're OK if you disable those two. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- spider: This computer I am using is mainly for Desktop, so I turn them all off. But I must run slocate -u manually ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ramfree17: i guess retaining cron will be beneficial. some cleanup jobs are periodically run in cron. ciao! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- spider: do you know what exactly they are? thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- arusabal: spider hat folgendes geschrieben:: +++++++ do you know what exactly they are? thanks +++++++ check the scripts located at /etc/cron.daily for example: logrotate: will compress long log files tmpwatch: removes files which haven't been accessed for a period of time, mainly from tmp directories slocate.cron, makewhatis.cron and rpm will update some useful databases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- spider: help me a lot thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JaseP: I seem to have a process that runs as; /usr/shar/msec/promisc_check.sh and /usr/bin/faxrunq They apparently run about twice per minute. That's way too much, since I really don't know what they're doing and the processes sometimes take up a fair amount of processing bandwidth. Anyone with a solution for trimming my system's use of crond down a bit??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted October 10, 2002 Report Share Posted October 10, 2002 Have you tried using webmin to turn services on/off? Just curious... its a really need browser app to manage your linux installation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qeldroma Posted October 21, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2002 I found sthg additional to devfsd: "CUPS-WWW-Administration tool" doesn't work correctly without. So cups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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