Hi All! Was wondering, since we're running OpenSolaris on our laptops if there's anything that can be done to reduce the number of services running, especially those that aren't useful for laptops.
I ran svcs the other day to have a look: STATE STIME FMRI legacy_run 18:10:39 lrc:/etc/rcS_d/S50sk98sol legacy_run 18:11:09 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S10lu legacy_run 18:11:09 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S20sysetup legacy_run 18:11:09 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S40llc2 legacy_run 18:11:09 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S42ncakmod legacy_run 18:11:09 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S47pppd legacy_run 18:11:09 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S70uucp legacy_run 18:11:09 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S72autoinstall legacy_run 18:11:09 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S73cachefs_daemon legacy_run 18:11:09 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S78cswfconfig legacy_run 18:11:09 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S81dodatadm_udaplt legacy_run 18:11:10 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S89PRESERVE legacy_run 18:11:10 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S94ncalogd legacy_run 18:11:10 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S98deallocate legacy_run 18:11:10 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S16boot_server legacy_run 18:11:10 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S50apache legacy_run 18:11:10 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S52imq legacy_run 18:11:10 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S84appserv legacy_run 18:11:10 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S99resfix disabled 18:10:41 svc:/system/xvm/console:default disabled 18:10:41 svc:/system/xvm/xend:default disabled 18:10:41 svc:/system/xvm/domains:default disabled 18:10:41 svc:/system/xvm/store:default online 18:10:31 svc:/system/svc/restarter:default online 18:10:32 svc:/network/loopback:default online 18:10:32 svc:/system/installupdates:default online 18:10:32 svc:/system/filesystem/root:default online 18:10:33 svc:/system/scheduler:default online 18:10:33 svc:/network/physical:default online 18:10:33 svc:/milestone/network:default online 18:10:34 svc:/system/identity:node online 18:10:34 svc:/network/datalink-management:default online 18:10:34 svc:/system/boot-archive:default online 18:10:34 svc:/system/filesystem/usr:default online 18:10:35 svc:/site/batstat:default online 18:10:35 svc:/system/keymap:default online 18:10:35 svc:/system/device/local:default online 18:10:36 svc:/system/filesystem/minimal:default online 18:10:37 svc:/system/rmtmpfiles:default online 18:10:37 svc:/system/resource-mgmt:default online 18:10:37 svc:/system/identity:domain online 18:10:37 svc:/system/coreadm:default online 18:10:37 svc:/system/cryptosvc:default online 18:10:38 svc:/system/sysevent:default online 18:10:38 svc:/system/power:default online 18:10:38 svc:/system/device/fc-fabric:default online 18:10:38 svc:/milestone/devices:default online 18:10:38 svc:/system/picl:default online 18:10:38 svc:/network/initial:default online 18:10:39 svc:/network/service:default online 18:10:39 svc:/network/dns/client:default online 18:10:39 svc:/milestone/name-services:default online 18:10:39 svc:/system/manifest-import:default online 18:10:39 svc:/milestone/single-user:default online 18:10:40 svc:/application/print/ppd-cache-update:default online 18:10:40 svc:/system/filesystem/local:default online 18:10:40 svc:/system/cron:default online 18:10:41 svc:/system/sysidtool:net online 18:10:41 svc:/system/boot-archive-update:default online 18:10:41 svc:/application/opengl/ogl-select:default online 18:10:42 svc:/network/rpc/bind:default online 18:10:42 svc:/system/sysidtool:system online 18:10:43 svc:/system/postrun:default online 18:10:43 svc:/platform/i86pc/kdmconfig:default online 18:10:43 svc:/milestone/sysconfig:default online 18:10:43 svc:/system/sac:default online 18:10:44 svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default online 18:10:44 svc:/system/utmp:default online 18:10:44 svc:/system/console-login:default online 18:10:44 svc:/network/shares/group:default online 18:10:44 svc:/system/dbus:default online 18:10:44 svc:/system/system-log:default online 18:10:45 svc:/network/inetd:default online 18:10:45 svc:/application/stosreg:default online 18:10:45 svc:/application/management/wbem:default online 18:10:46 svc:/network/rpc/gss:default online 18:10:46 svc:/network/rpc/smserver:default online 18:10:46 svc:/network/rpc-100235_1/rpc_ticotsord:default online 18:10:46 svc:/network/sgi_fam_1-2/rpc_tcp:default online 18:10:46 svc:/network/smb/client:default online 18:10:47 svc:/application/print/server:default online 18:10:50 svc:/application/print/cswcups:default online 18:10:52 svc:/system/hal:default online 18:10:52 svc:/system/filesystem/rmvolmgr:default online 18:10:53 svc:/application/font/fc-cache:default online 18:11:10 svc:/milestone/multi-user:default online 18:11:10 svc:/system/intrd:default online 18:11:10 svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default online 18:11:11 svc:/system/zones:default online 18:11:11 svc:/system/basicreg:default online 18:11:13 svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login:default online 18:11:14 svc:/application/cde-printinfo:default online 18:32:00 svc:/network/wpa:wpi0 online 18:32:02 svc:/system/name-service-cache:default online 19:31:59 svc:/network/ntp:default offline 18:10:33 svc:/system/fmd:default I'm not sure how that corresponds to what I see in services-admin here, as I've already disabled quite some stuff, according to svcs I have 71 services running (sheesh!) and in services-admin I see 56 ticks. I noticed that "batstat" is included above, which of course doesn't appear in services-admin. 19 legacy_runs, of which 2 are there with my knowledge (csw and resfix), the rest mean very little to me except for apache. If anyone has suggestions on how I can reduce the number of services running on my laptop without losing functionality that is required for mobile computing, I'd be very happy to hear from them. Once upon a time, when I didn't use Solaris yet but was an IRIX afficionado, we had a nifty little write-up on what could be disabled for workstation installs to make them more responsive, it'd be well nice to see that for the OpenSolaris laptop community. Thanks for reading, best wishes, Hakim -- S. Hakim Hamdani [ML] / Eroteme.org
