On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:14:21 -0500 (EST) | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [luau] turning off radhat services | | [snip]... | kudzu recognizes hardware at startup. Is there a way to turn | it off later? Is that a good idea?
You can run it manually after you add new hardware if you like. It *may* be needed for some kinds of USB and/or firewire hot-plugging, so I usually leave it on (not sure about this, YMMV). | netfs supposed to automount nfs and smbfs shares, on if you | want? Correct. If you aren't mounting any net-based volumes you can turn this off. | rawdevices no idea, on. Used to manage raw partitions, e.g. by applications like Oracle. Only used by esoteric sw, to my knowledge. Most people can turn this off. | ipchains iptables firewall stuff, one or other on. Actually my | system has both on, a problem? You should only need one. Newer Redhat's, e.g. 8.0 can use iptables for the built-in firewall config. | ntpd network time protocol daemon, has been a security | hole, probably off. I think this is a fairly safe one, provided you have a trustworthy time connection (I don't know how many public time servers are using the authentication mechanisms). This will keep your computer's time synced, and can in turn, optionally provide time service to other computers on your network. | portmap required for samba or NFS, I forget. NFS. Turn it off if you don't use NFS. | xinetd long story, off probably. Definitely off unless you need some xinetd-based service (e.g. IMAPS). | rhnsd red hat network, on if you use it. Is this strictly necessary? Is this just to turn on the little button that says "update available"? I've always wondered, but never looked into it. | autofs no idea Automounting CD-ROMs, floppys, USB/Firewire drives, etc. Good to leave it on if you like automounting removable storage (most people do). | nscd no idea Isn't this the name-server cacheing daemon? Useful if you want to cache name lookups for a local network, otherwise off. | identd Identifies you to IRC servers, from what I can tell. | Known security problem; disable if you don't IRC. Is this used for anything besides IRC? | isdn no idea If you don't have ISDN, turn it off. | vncserver no idea Easier to run this manually after sshing in, plus then you can tunnel the connection for security. Off. | yppasswdd ypserv ypxfrd samba? yp stuff on if you run NIS. Most people can leave this off. samba on only if you have it configured properly and you need it (Windows file share). | winbind no idea More Windows-compatability stuff. Off unless you know you need it. Eric Jeschke http://redskiesatnight.com/