A plague of daemons and the Unix Philosophy

[Ben Scott]

On Nov 13, 2007 11:37 AM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> Is there a list of what each daemon does?

  I usually read the initscript source.  Failing that, I'll try "man"
or "whatis" on the program the initscript starts.  Failing that, I'll
try "rpm -qlf /etc/rc.d/rc.init/foo | grep doc" and look for likely
docs.  Failing that, I'll disable it, because anything that poorly
documented is probably a bad idea anyway.

> I've gotten in the habit, sadly, of disabling most daemons ...

  One of my assertions is that that is not a bad habit.  Indeed, I'd
argue it is a good habit, and should be a design consideration.

-- Ben