On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 09:26, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > Hi list, > > I often hear the suggestion to "turn off unneeded services". SuSE SLES-8 > seems to have a lot of services off, but there are probably more that are > not needed. However, I'm wary of turning off any that are critical to > Linux. Will any of the following be a problem with the base functioning of > a Linux image under z/VM?: > > chkconfig atd off
"at" is a very useful service, but you may not need it. It's a one-shot scheduler. > chkconfig fbset off Frame buffer? Don't need it. > chkconfig hotplug off Hotplug may be used for dynamic device detection and attach/detach. > chkconfig hwscan off Hwscan might too but I don't know for sure. I doubt you need it, but it might interfere with dynamic device attach/detach. > chkconfig postfix off You might want to leave postfix on; there are a bunch of programs--cron comes to mind--that like to send mail to you to report on their runs. > chkconfig smbfs off Don't need it unless you're mounting Samba shares. > chkconfig xdm off Don't need it. You really don't want to run xdm from a System/390 or zSeries. Adam
