What Services Can I Disable?

[6tr6tr]

I'm looking to speed up fedora a bit so I want to disable any services that aren't necessary. I'mm using a netbook. I want to disable these services (any others you'd recommend as well?) but I'm not sure if there are parts of fedora that expect them and would crash if I stopped them.

avahi-daemon (is this needed for wireless?)
livesys, livesys-late (what is this for?)
mdmonitor
nfslock
rpcgssd, rpcimapd
sendmail (I use thunderbird, does fedora need this?)

Any others?

Also,, is it worth putting "alias net-pf-10 off" into /etc/modprobe.conf?

Any other speed up tiips?

[scottro]

Ok, the best thing to do is probably check out the mjmwired site.
http://www.mjmwired.net/

He gives guides to services for every release--don't know if he's gotten to F11 yet, but his F10 should be pretty close, I would think.

[marko]

the exact link is

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-services-f11.html

assuming Fedora 11 (the menu at the right will show the other services pages
by Fedora version)

[6tr6tr]

Originally Posted by marko

the exact link is

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-services-f11.html

assuming Fedora 11 (the menu at the right will show the other services pages
by Fedora version)

Thanks. One question: Most of those services did not show up in the services app. Do I have to log in as root before using that app to see all these services?

[CSchwangler]

Originally Posted by 6tr6tr

Thanks. One question: Most of those services did not show up in the services app. Do I have to log in as root before using that app to see all these services?

Could you elaborate a little bit more on that? Which services are missing? If you start Service Configuration then you should see all of the services, whether you are root or not. Only if you want to stop or disable a service, it will ask you for root login.
There is also a command line tool for managing services. Issue as root the command

/sbin/chkconfig --list

This will list all services along with the runlevels for which they are activated. The following command lists the services currently running:

/sbin/service --status-all

[6tr6tr]

Originally Posted by CSchwangler

Could you elaborate a little bit more on that? Which services are missing? If you start Service Configuration then you should see all of the services, whether you are root or not. Only if you want to stop or disable a service, it will ask you for root login.
There is also a command line tool for managing services. Issue as root the command

/sbin/chkconfig --list

This will list all services along with the runlevels for which they are activated. The following command lists the services currently running:

/sbin/service --status-all

I go into the KDE Menu Launcher and type in "Services" and it finds the Service Manager. I start that and I see a bunch of services but I don't see bluetooth, btseed/bttracker, cvs, httpd, irda, mysqld, anacron as a few examples.

EDIT: Running the command "/sbin/chkconfig --list" also does not show those services.

[CSchwangler]

You should also look into autostarted applications. For instance, if you are not using bluetooth you can disable the automatically started applet.

[6tr6tr]

Originally Posted by CSchwangler

You should also look into autostarted applications. For instance, if you are not using bluetooth you can disable the automatically started applet.

Thanks. Where would I find that? When I opened up the services app, there was nothing about bluetooth.

[CSchwangler]

Originally Posted by 6tr6tr

Thanks. Where would I find that? When I opened up the services app, there was nothing about bluetooth.

You can find the autostarted applications on the settings for your window manager (GNOME, KDE, XFCE, etc.). These are per user settings. I don't have GNOME or KDE but on GNOME, if I remember correctly, these settings are in the rightmost menu directly above the Administration settings and should read something like "Session and Startup".

[stevea]

Hmmm - I hope we all realize that some "services" just load drivers or loadup iptabkes for example. There is no 'server' process gobbling up resources and these are usually not worth halting.

[6tr6tr]

And what about: "alias net-pf-10 off" into /etc/modprobe.conf? (To turn off IPv6)