Ed, here are my thoughts:
Ed Robitaille wrote:
> ps -e
> output >
>
> PID TTY TIME CMD
> 1 ? 00:00:04 init
> 2 ? 00:00:00 kflushd
> 3 ? 00:00:00 kupdate
> 4 ? 00:00:00 kpiod
> 5 ? 00:00:00 kswapd
> 6 ? 00:00:00 md_thread
> 131 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
> 135 ? 00:00:00 klogd
> 153 ? 00:00:00 named
Named is the BIND DNS server. You don't need this unless you are
serving DNS to other systems.
> 174 ? 00:00:00 automount
You don't need automounter unless you are NFS mounting filesystems
from other machines.
> 185 ? 00:00:00 atd
atd is a debateable point.
> 189 ? 00:00:00 inetd
You don't need inetd running unless you are providing services to
other machines like telnet, ftp, etc. You can either shut off inetd or
you can go into /etc/inetd.conf and comment out all of the services
that you don't want running.
> 203 ? 00:00:00 in.identd
> 204 ? 00:00:00 in.identd
> 205 ? 00:00:00 in.identd
> 206 ? 00:00:00 in.identd
> 207 ? 00:00:00 in.identd
> 208 ? 00:00:00 in.identd
> 209 ? 00:00:00 in.identd
Identd is another debateable point. Some services (like IRC) require
identd information before they allow you to connect. IMHO, you don't
need it ;-)
> 218 ? 00:00:00 nscd
> 219 ? 00:00:00 nscd
> 220 ? 00:00:00 nscd
> 221 ? 00:00:00 nscd
> 222 ? 00:00:00 nscd
> 223 ? 00:00:00 nscd
> 224 ? 00:00:00 nscd
You don't need to run ncsd unless you're doing network analysis or
tuning of some sort.
> 261 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty
> 262 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
> 263 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
> 264 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
> 265 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
> 266 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
> ----------------------------------------------------------
C-Ya,
Kenny
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