I'm building a linux server using SuSE version 11.1 and I want to run Apache, SNMP, DHCP and SSH. Machine will also be functioning as a router/firewall. I want to run as few services as possible. Currently I have these services that start-up in rc3 and I want to remove the unnecessary ones. Is there anything that I can disable?
acpid
apachectl
auditd
cron
dbus
dhcpd
earlysyslog
fbset
haldaemon
kbd
network
network-remotefs
nfs
nscd
ntp
postfix
random
rpcbind
smartd
snmpd
splash
splash_early
sshd
stopblktrace
syslog
Best Answer
The only one you likely don't need is
nfs, but that won't hurt the overall system performance if you keep it: by default, nothing is shared, and the daemon idles.