Disabling unneeded services in CentOS

Found this great blog article about disabling unneeded Services, here is a brief over view of the services you can disable on a server

Checking what services are running (run this as root).

    chkconfig --list | grep on

Turning off the services

    chkconfig --level 0123456 <Service Name> off

Services Safe to turn off on a server

  • isdn

  • gpm

  • pcmcia

  • sendmail

Reference Source

http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/12/27/securing-centos-installations-by-disabling-unneeded-services/

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