[indiana-discuss] unnessesary services?

[Cindy.Swearingen at Sun.COM]

Hi Rand,

The Solaris admin guide identifies services, here:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2379/fddwm?a=view

You can use the service name identified in this section to
review the man page for the service or related function.

This doc isn't specific to the OpenSolaris release and I'm unsure
whether all services are included in this section, but it should be
close enough.

Since we currently provide information for various Solaris releases,
it is not always in the same location. I apologize for the confusion.

Just ask if you can't find anything. Another venue for information
questions is docs-discuss at opensolaris.org.


Cindy



Rand All wrote:
> I'm trying out OpenSolaris as a regular desktop OS, and it works fine, but it seems to be using a lot more memory than it probably ought to.  svcs shows a ton of services running by default, and I'm sure I don't need all of them for everyday desktop stuff, so I want to disable services I don't need.  The problem is that a lot of them have really cryptic names, and I can't find any good descriptions of what they all do.  I've scoured Sun's Solaris docs, but they're not very well-organized.  Can anyone point me to a simple list of service names, descriptions, functions, etc.?