Starting Services At Boot (Which services are optional?)

[Tom Adelstein]

On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 18:30 +0300, Ahmet Kurukose wrote:
> 
> Hi Troy,
> 
> just install the rcconf package.
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> sudo apt-get install rcconf
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> and then type sudo rcconf in shell and edit the starting services at boot.
> 
> rcconf is so comfortable, be sure:)
> 
> Troy Davidson wrote:
> 

Ahmet, thank you!

rcconf looks somewhat like ntsysv in Fedora/ Red Hat. 


Do you agree that desktop users can stop these services from starting at boot:

ntpdate, pcmcia,  ppp, powernowd, rsync, fetchmail  are optional? Or, do these services support other Ubuntu funtions?

I can see arguments for getting rid of these at start up. 

Anyone have anything to add?