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carick

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Registered: 2009-01-15

Posts: 15

Default rc.conf daemons

Just curious what network netfs and crond do ? They are loaded at startup in the daemons array of the default rc.conf and i am trying to reduce my startup processes and trying to determine if i need them.
Thanks

fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: Default rc.conf daemons

Just curious what network netfs and crond do ? They are loaded at startup in the daemons array of the default rc.conf and i am trying to reduce my startup processes and trying to determine if i need them.
Thanks

if you're trying to cut down on boot up time, putting '@' in front of each daemon will load them in the background. when i did that, it took about 10 seconds off my boot up time.

fflarex

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 466

Re: Default rc.conf daemons

Crond is scheduling daemon which will run programs at certain times. You probably don't want to get rid of it. Netfs is safe to get rid of unless you know you need it. It handles networked file systems. The network daemon is used for internet connectivity, although there are other daemons you may want to use for that if you need wireless (like netcfg, wicd, or networkmanager).

darthaxul

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Registered: 2008-09-24

Posts: 156

Re: Default rc.conf daemons

if u never look at logs the remove syslog
if u never run cron jobs remove crond
i think those are the default ones that most ppl might not need.

Dieter@be

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Registered: 2006-11-05

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Re: Default rc.conf daemons

look at /etc/rc.d/<name of daemon you want to know about>

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