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#1 2010-10-10 18:07:18

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[Solved] Which are really needed?

Hello all,

After spending some time with Crunchbang and minimal installations of Ubuntu, I'm thinking about trying out Arch once again - and staying this time, that is. I already managed to install and configure Arch twice before, so it's not that I'm unable to do so. I was just wondering, which of the daemons mentioned in the Beginners' Guide (alsa, network daemons, udev, hal etc) are really necessary? This time I want to keep everything as slick and clean as possible, so I'd like to know which daemons I can remove / don't add.

I only need/want the daemons that will give me, the reguler computer user, a workable environment. (Think like: network (wireless and wired, when wireless isn't available); automount of memory cards, USB sticks and external HDD's; sound; using a wireless USB mouse...)

Oh, almost forgot to mention: I'm using a laptop, if that matters. I hope I'm not asking something incredibly stupid or non-accomplish-able. Thanks in advance! smile

Last edited by Unia (2010-10-10 18:42:16)


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#2 2010-10-10 18:13:58

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Re: [Solved] Which are really needed?

There's only one good test: disable it, see what happens. That's how you learn, and more importantly: that's how you rememeber.


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#3 2010-10-10 18:19:20

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Re: [Solved] Which are really needed?

I had thought of that too, but I'd like to know which are really needed in order to boot correctly, before I start messing things up right away?


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#4 2010-10-10 18:23:22

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Re: [Solved] Which are really needed?

you don't need any daemon to get a booting system. i just got syslog-ng for logging, crond and network

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#5 2010-10-10 18:27:01

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Re: [Solved] Which are really needed?

What exactly does crond do? When googling, I only find cron. Is it the same?
Also, when I install a network manager, wicd for example, and set it to automatically connect with my network, do I need the network daemon?

Last edited by Unia (2010-10-10 18:27:53)


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#6 2010-10-10 18:37:53

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Re: [Solved] Which are really needed?

"network" is just one of many ways of starting your network.  If you use wicd you don't need it.  crond is the cron daemon.


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#7 2010-10-10 18:42:03

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Re: [Solved] Which are really needed?

Alright, thanks. I'll start some trial and error then. Configure this solved.


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