On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 22:58 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: > On 3/14/08, Manish Chakravarty <manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 22:39 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: > > > On 3/14/08, Manish Chakravarty <manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi BOSUG, > > > > > > > > I just did an > > > > "svcs -a | grep online | wc -l " and it gave me 79 online services! > > > > > > > > > > > > This machine is a laptop; I guess quite a few of them should be safe > > to > > > > shut down. I would not have use for them anyways. > > > > > > > > Also, i a few CDE-related services. I guess they should be shut down > > as > > > > well. ( I am not a CDE user at all ) > > > > > > > > I have attached the output of svcs -a | grep online for my system ( > > SXDE > > > > 1/08 ; b79b amd64 ) > > > > > > > > Could someone please guide me on this? > > > > > > > > > > '#svcadm disable basicreg' is probably the first command I run on a > > > newly installed SX. > > > > What does this command do? > > > It stops the Solaris registration daemon from running in the > background eveytime you bootup. I've heard rumours it loads java > runtime in the background among other atrocities. That should save me quite a lot of memory. Also should i shut down these ( svcs -a | grep online | grep cde ) online 21:36:14 svc:/network/rpc/cde-calendar-manager:default online 21:36:14 svc:/network/rpc/cde-ttdbserver:tcp online 21:36:21 svc:/application/cde-printinfo:default
I never use CDE. Is it safe to shut these down? I dont use CDE's login manager (dtwm) either... -- Manish
