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Old 05-23-2007, 08:20 PM
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Default Useless services in CentOS VDS/VPS

I'm trying to minimize memory and CPU usage on my VPS.
here's what I really need in init.d:

crond
firewall
httpd
postfix
dovecot
clamd
clamsmtpd
named
network
sshd
syslog
vsftpd
webmin
xinetd
/etc/rc.d/rc.local

And this is my pstree output:

Code:
init-+-clamd
     |-clamsmtpd
     |-crond
     |-dbus-daemon-1
     |-dovecot-+-dovecot-auth
     |         |-imap-login
     |         |-imap-login
     |         |-imap-login
     |         |-imap-login
     |         |-pop3-login
     |         |-pop3-login
     |         |-pop3-login
     |         `-pop3-login
     |-httpd-+-httpd
     |       |-httpd
     |       |-httpd---pstree
     |       |-httpd
     |       |-httpd
     |       |-httpd
     |       |-httpd
     |       `-httpd
     |-master-+-anvil
     |        |-pickup
     |        |-qmgr
     |        |-smtpd
     |        |-smtpd
     |        `-trivial-rewrite
     |-miniserv.pl
     |-miniserv.pl---miniserv.pl
     |-miniserv.pl---miniserv.pl
     |-miniserv.pl---miniserv.pl
     |-miniserv.pl---miniserv.pl
     |-sshd---sshd---bash---mc---bash
     |-syslogd
     `-xinetd
Now I see a lot of stuff in /etc/rc.d/init.d
but I'm not sure if I can safely move it out:

auditd
dc_client
haldaemon
kudzu
netplugd
rdisc
dc_server
halt
lm_sensors
saslauthd
vzquota
messagebus
nscd
smartd
cpuspeed
irqbalance
microcode_ctl
functions
killall
netfs
rawdevices

Is there somebody using a VPS under virtuozzo who can tell me which of all the services I can switch off/remove ?

Also, what exactly happens when I do a reboot in a VPS? When I do
# shutdown -r now
it used to show me it was stopping and starting all services in messages log,
but all I get now is just 1 entry where it says I did a shutdown.
It looks like shutdown is broken somehow. Any idea?
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