Sunday, October 3, 2010

Disable unnecessary services

You should periodically review what services are running and remove any that are no longer needed. One way to check is to use the following command: (Note that this command checks for services running in run level 3)

chkconfig –-list |grep ‘3:on’

If you see any services you need to stop and disable you can use these commands:

service <servicename> stop

chkconfig <servicename> off

the first one stops the service; the second one removes it from the list of services that start when you initialize a runlevel (such as system startup).

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