How to keep unnecessary processes from starting

[NoOp]

On 03/10/2009 08:21 AM, Brian McKee wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have 8.10-server-i386 running in command-line only.
>> Surely some of the processes below are unnecessary.
>> What's the best way to separate the wheat from the chaff?
> 
> Well, I don't know too much how to help - since your wheat might be
> our chaff :-)
> e.g. if you are not running a mail server some of that stuff is chaff
> - but if you are, it's wheat.
> It doesn't look that bad to me.
> 
> ps -auxwwf is much more readable for me for that task, and shows association.
> If it's in square brackets leave it alone :-)
> 
> Brian
> 

$ ps -auxwwf | more
makes it easier to view/read via the terminal. Do you know of a way to
get that to pipe to a text file?

A simple pstree usually works for me:

$ pstree -pah|more

or you can pipe it to a text file to view:

$ pstree -pah > pstree.txt
$ gedit pstree.txt