> Conor Wynne wrote:
>>>>Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>>>>>>Stop all unneccessary services.
>>>>>>>> Thanks Conor.
>> There are services whose purpose are clear to me (e.g., httpd, xinetd)
> but there are others that I'm not so sure w.r.t. whether or not my FC3
> installation will be ok without them. Being new to Linux, I usually let
> those enabled by default (on installation) to be running and only enable
> more services as I need and gain more knowledge about them over time.
> Oracle10g doesn't seem to need any special system service to be running
> except its own, e.g., the listener. Are there any guidelines on the
> minimum set of services, i.e., those that are a MUST for generic
> functions on any FC3 installation?
Show us what you have running and we can make suggestions.
chkconfig --list |grep on
Example: Are you running nfs? pcmcia? mdmonitor? isdn? cups? etc., etc.
These are just the examples which I have only now copped on which are
running, but unused on my own box.
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Conor.
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