[indiana-discuss] reducing the number of services started at boot

Mon Jul 9 14:30:37 PDT 2007

Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> 
> 
> 2007/7/9, Eric Ray <Eric.Ray at sun.com <mailto:Eric.Ray at sun.com>>:
> 
> 
> 
>     MC wrote:
>      >> Is this something we should add to the list, i.e., investigate
>      > the services started at boot time to determine which aren't necessary
>      > and can be removed?
>      >
>      > As the Indiana-for-normal-people project has different requirements
>      > than the Solaris project, I think it's a given that the startup
>      > services need to be re-evaluated. --
>      >
> 
>     At the risk of belaboring the point, what _are_ the requirements
>     for Indiana-for-normal-people? We've had a lot of discussion
>     around it, but I don't think that we converged on anything
>     actionable. I'd love to get that convergence.
> 
> 
> I think that the general approach should be, the less the better. Let´s 
> get rid of any service that people don't need to start a web browser, 
> use zfs, zones and dtrace, and have a working desktop environment. I 
> would even say, that the default ubuntu starts more services than 
> needed, so I won't consider it as a reference.
> 

Yes, let's ignore Ubuntu or anything else as a reference and instead 
focus on what specific OpenSolaris services you and others are finding 
objectionable.  Below's the list of services enabled on first boot:

# uname -a
SunOS whitestar1-9.East.Sun.COM 5.11 snv_68 i86pc i386 i86pc
# svcs
STATE          STIME    FMRI
legacy_run     17:20:14 lrc:/etc/rcS_d/S50sk98sol
legacy_run     17:21:54 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S10lu
legacy_run     17:21:55 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S20sysetup
legacy_run     17:21:55 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S40llc2
legacy_run     17:21:55 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S42ncakmod
legacy_run     17:21:55 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S47pppd
legacy_run     17:21:55 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S70uucp
legacy_run     17:21:56 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S72autoinstall
legacy_run     17:21:56 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S73cachefs_daemon
legacy_run     17:21:56 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S81dodatadm_udaplt
legacy_run     17:22:06 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S89PRESERVE
legacy_run     17:22:06 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S94ncalogd
legacy_run     17:22:06 lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S98deallocate
legacy_run     17:22:08 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S16boot_server
legacy_run     17:22:08 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S50apache
legacy_run     17:22:09 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S52imq
legacy_run     17:22:09 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S80mipagent
legacy_run     17:22:09 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S84appserv
online         17:16:27 svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
online         17:17:07 svc:/milestone/name-services:default
online         17:17:54 svc:/network/initial:default
online         17:17:55 svc:/network/loopback:default
online         17:17:56 svc:/network/physical:default
online         17:17:59 svc:/network/service:default
online         17:18:09 svc:/milestone/network:default
online         17:18:56 svc:/system/device/local:default
online         17:18:58 svc:/milestone/devices:default
online         17:18:59 svc:/system/filesystem/minimal:default
online         17:19:07 svc:/system/boot-archive:default
online         17:19:13 svc:/system/identity:node
online         17:19:18 svc:/system/rmtmpfiles:default
online         17:19:26 svc:/system/filesystem/usr:default
online         17:19:28 svc:/system/device/fc-fabric:default
online         17:19:28 svc:/system/sysevent:default
online         17:19:37 svc:/system/filesystem/root:default
online         17:19:45 svc:/system/resource-mgmt:default
online         17:19:50 svc:/system/installupdates:default
online         17:19:57 svc:/system/coreadm:default
online         17:19:57 svc:/system/identity:domain
online         17:19:58 svc:/system/cryptosvc:default
online         17:19:58 svc:/network/ipsec/ipsecalgs:default
online         17:19:58 svc:/system/scheduler:default
online         17:19:59 svc:/system/picl:default
online         17:19:59 svc:/system/name-service-cache:default
online         17:20:00 svc:/system/keymap:default
online         17:20:00 svc:/network/ipsec/policy:default
online         17:20:02 svc:/system/power:default
online         17:20:13 svc:/system/manifest-import:default
online         17:20:15 svc:/milestone/single-user:default
online         17:20:17 svc:/system/filesystem/local:default
online         17:20:18 svc:/system/boot-archive-update:default
online         17:20:18 svc:/system/cron:default
online         17:20:20 svc:/system/dbus:default
online         17:20:21 svc:/network/shares/group:default
online         17:20:22 svc:/network/shares/group:zfs
online         17:20:25 svc:/application/opengl/ogl-select:default
online         17:20:27 svc:/system/sysidtool:net
online         17:20:29 svc:/system/hal:default
online         17:20:31 svc:/network/routing-setup:default
online         17:20:31 svc:/system/filesystem/rmvolmgr:default
online         17:20:32 svc:/network/rpc/bind:default
online         17:20:35 svc:/network/routing/ndp:default
online         17:20:35 svc:/network/rpc/keyserv:default
online         17:20:35 svc:/network/nis/client:default
online         17:20:37 svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default
online         17:20:41 svc:/system/dumpadm:default
online         17:20:42 svc:/system/sysidtool:system
online         17:20:47 svc:/system/fmd:default
online         17:20:57 svc:/platform/i86pc/kdmconfig:default
online         17:20:58 svc:/milestone/sysconfig:default
online         17:20:59 svc:/system/sac:default
online         17:20:59 svc:/system/utmp:default
online         17:21:00 svc:/system/system-log:default
online         17:21:00 svc:/network/inetd:default
online         17:21:01 svc:/system/console-login:default
online         17:21:02 svc:/application/management/wbem:default
online         17:21:02 svc:/network/ssh:default
online         17:21:08 svc:/network/rpc/gss:default
online         17:21:08 svc:/network/rpc/smserver:default
online         17:21:08 svc:/network/security/ktkt_warn:default
online         17:21:08 svc:/network/rpc/cde-ttdbserver:tcp
online         17:21:08 svc:/network/rpc/cde-calendar-manager:default
online         17:21:08 svc:/network/rpc-100235_1/rpc_ticotsord:default
online         17:21:50 svc:/application/font/fc-cache:default
online         17:21:53 svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
online         17:22:06 svc:/milestone/multi-user:default
online         17:22:07 svc:/system/intrd:default
online         17:22:09 svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
online         17:22:10 svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login:default
online         17:22:12 svc:/system/zones:default
online         17:22:12 svc:/system/basicreg:default
online         17:22:21 svc:/application/cde-printinfo:default
online         17:23:45 svc:/system/webconsole:console
online         17:25:11 svc:/system/postrun:default
offline*       17:20:01 svc:/application/print/ppd-cache-update:default

What do you think should be turned off here?

Dave