[Ma-linux] Re: [Novalug] Another service running, need advice

[Jay Hart]

Following your advice, I logged in as root and killed "init".  My computer
immediately gave me an error message of "Please call Bill Gates at Microsoft
to resolve system failure".

If you have put me in the bad graces of Microsoft, we need to talk.  What the
hell did you do to my computer???

Jay

> There's a pretty boring process called init that runs all the time, well
> after the computer has finished initializing itself, thus wasting precious
> bytes of resources.  It doesn't come with a script in init.d, but you can
> just go ahead and kill it.  You'll have to kill it as root, but it should go
> without a fight.
>
> -kpd
>
> On 12/11/07, Jay Hart <jhart at kevla.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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