[ug-bosug] Which of these services are safe to shutdown for a laptop?

[Manish Chakravarty]

Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> [..snip..]
>>> It stops the Solaris registration daemon from running in the
>>> background eveytime you bootup. I've heard rumours it loads java
>>> runtime in the background among other atrocities.
>>>     
>
>   It is an atrocious pig inflicted upon people!
Lol! I had hearty laugh with this one!!
>
>
>> That should save me quite a lot of memory.
>> Also should i shut down these
>> ( svcs -a | grep online | grep cde )
>> online         21:36:14 svc:/network/rpc/cde-calendar-manager:default
>> online         21:36:14 svc:/network/rpc/cde-ttdbserver:tcp
>> online         21:36:21 svc:/application/cde-printinfo:default
>>
>> I never use CDE. Is it safe to shut these down? I dont use CDE's 
>> login manager (dtwm) either...
Yup. I shut these down.
>>   
>
>   Yes, you can disable those. Some more you can disable:
>   svc:/system/webconsole:console
>   svc:/application/management/wbem:default
Shut these down too.
>
>   Not all the services you see are daemon processes. A bunch of them are
>   ephemeral. These are scripts that run some commands during boot and
>   the commands complete and exit. The service state is moved to online
>   but there is no process associated. You can see processes associated
>   with a service using:
>
>   svcs -p <service name>
Hmm. Thanks a for explaining this.

-- Manish