How to keep unnecessary processes from starting

[Jhair Tocancipa Triana]

Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net> writes:

> 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?
>

k* processes are chaff :-)...

It depends on what you use the machine for. For instance, do you use it
to serve files via FTP?

> 5754 proftpd   20   0  5052 1432  616 S  0.0  0.6   0:05.18 proftpd

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--Jhair