Conserving Resources

We recommend disabling of the following CDE and OpenWindows services unless they are required in your environment. Disabling these services will enhance system performance.

• cmsd: Disable this service as it is required only if CDE calendars are located on the host.

• dtspcd: Disable this service to discontinue support for CDE sessions.

• kcms_server: Disable this service to discontinue support for remote access to OpenWindows KCMS profiles.

• ttdbserverd: Disable this service to discontinue support for Tooltalk database server required for proper CDE operation.

We recommend disabling the following network (inetd) services unless required in your environment. Disabling these services will free resources and enhance system performance. Modify the default configuration if you require any network utilities listed below.

• chargen: Disable this service to discontinue support to test inetd and generate characters.

• discard: Disable this service to discontinue discarding all input from testing inetd.

• echo: Disable this service to discontinue support to echo back all input from testing inetd.

• fs.auto: Disable this service to disable the font server.

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  If you accept the default setting, the following service will be enabled. You must review and may modify the setting.

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• time: If you accept the default installation setting, note that this service will be enabled as it keeps someone from querying the system's time remotely. It returns machine-readable time.

• cachefsd: If you accept the default installation setting, note that this service will be enabled. This is the cacheFS daemon.

We recommend disabling of the following services unless they are essential for your environment. Disabling these services will enhance system performance. Please modify the default configuration if you require any services listed below.

• automountd: Disable this service as this supports automounting only and not normal NFS mounts. To change its value, S74autofs will be modified.

• comsat: Disable this service to discontinue biff(1) notification of new mail on the host.

• daytime: Disable this service to discontinue support to return the time of day.

• rquotad: Disable this service to ensure that the host is not operated as an NFS server supporting disk quotas on its file system.

• sadmind: Disable this service to discontinue support for performing distributed system administration operations using Solstice AdminSuite.

• talkd: Disable this service to discontinue support for running the interactive talk program.

• tnamed: Disable this service to discontinue support for DARPA name server protocol.

• lpd: Disable this service to ensure that the host is not operated as a BSD print server. This does not disable the system V print server.

• uucpd: Disable this service and discontinue support for copying files named by the source-file arguments to the destination-file argument.

• walld: Disable this service and discontinue support for sending messages by wall.

• Xaserver: Disable this service and discontinue support for X-based audio.

You can also refer to the on line help during host configuration for help in enabling or disabling the Solaris services.