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

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Mon Jul 9 09:35:54 PDT 2007


Ian Murdock 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? I haven't noticed a problem
> with speed here aside from the first boot (which does take an
> inordinately long time--what on earth is it doing exactly?).

Presumably some of the big time sinks will be removed since they
are specific to Sun-support products, like the Sun Update Manager
and Basic Registration (which collect your information, try to
sell you a service plan, and then if you accepted it, download
updates).

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering


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