[Novalug] Another service running, need advice

[Jay Hart]

Not only disabled that service, but disabled cupsrenice, since I don't run a
GUI on this box.

> I think that's a fair assessment.  I always disable it out of the box on
> RHEL and CentOS boxen.
>
> -- Mike
>
> Jay Hart wrote:
>> Ok, got the "microcode" service running on a server which has a Via CPU.
>> The
>> microcode service is to "update the Intel CPU microcode".
>>
>> I don't see a reason to run this service either, but it is. So, my guess is
>> that I could "safely" stop and disable this service.
>>
>> What say you???
>>
>> Jay
>>
>>
>>> Yes I am referrring to the "name service cache daemon".  Based on your
>>> reply,
>>> I've disabled that service for this machine.
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 22:23 -0500, Jay Hart wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Do you need nscd running on a workstation that uses a static ip address,
>>>>> a
>>>>> default gateway, and has an entry for a DNS server to get on the net?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jay
>>>>>
>>>> If by 'nscd' you are referring to the "name service cache daemon" then I
>>>> don't even have it running on any of my machines, in fact I don't even
>>>> have it installed.
>>>>
>>>> I do run 'dnsmasq' "DNS masquerade and forward" but only on my gateway
>>>> machine and sometimes on my portable which move around a lot.
>>>>
>>>> The caching service provide by 'nscd' will only be of benefit to you if
>>>> you have BOTH large passwd(5), group(5), and hosts(5) database and make
>>>> use of programs that access those databases a whole whole lot.
>>>>  IOW a lan-server host might get some gain by running it.
>>>>
>>>> -- DonJr
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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