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System Services IIISummary:
Annotated List of System Services (i-n)ibodIBOD is the 'ISDN Bandwidth On Demand Daemon'. It supports opening or closing a second B-channel automatically upon a certain amount of traffic. man ibod identd Provides identification information about the host it is running on. Necessary to access some braindead IRC networks. man identd ifled Daemon script for ~InterfaceLED . This program allows you to use the keyboard LEDs for displaying network traffic and more. inet(d) Obsolete since ML 7.2, replaced by xinetd. Refer to the attic page for details. innd Control script for the ~InterNetNews Usenet server. ipchains 'ipchains' is the standard firewalling method in Linux kernel 2.2 based systems, Linux kernel 2.4 (Mandrake Linux 8.x) uses 'iptables' instead. You'll need this if you want to keep on using your old (2.2) firewall rules and software. man ipchains iplog iplog logs network traffic (who'da thunk it?). man iplog ippl ippl (IP Protocols Logger) logs incoming network traffic. man ippl ipsec Part of Linux ~FreeS/WAN , an implementation of the IPSEC (Internet Protocol SECurity) protocol. IPSEC allows you to connect trusted networks via untrusted ones using a technique called 'tunneling' (in short: all the traffic between the trusted networks gets encrypted and decrypted automatically). iptables Part of the iptables/netfilter duo, which does the firewalling and IP masquerading on Linux kernel 2.4.x systems (successor to 'ipchains'). man iptables ip6tables Same as above, but for the future IPv6 network protocol. iptoip "iptoip is a program to maintain an ipvsadm {see next entry} table coherent." ipvsadm Used to administer a Linux Virtual Server . In short: cluster stuff. man ipvsadm ircd ircd (Internet Relay Chat Daemon) is the original IRC server software. man ircd irda Control script for IR (Infra-Red) connected devices, maintained by the Linux-~IrDA Project . isdn4linux For users of ISDN-cards (terminal-adapters are handled like modems). Notice that you might still have to configure this service, read '/usr/doc/isdn4net-{...}/doc/INSTALL.quick' for more. In ML 7.2 and later, use the 'draknet' utility. jabber, jabber-icq Control scripts for the Open Source Instant Messaging server Jabber . You'll need jabber-icq if you want to allow clients to use the ICQ service. jail.init Deprecated in ML 8.2. Refer to the attic page. jserver ~FreeWnn is needed to display Japanese characters correctly. man jserver junkbuster Junkbuster is an ad-, cookie- and contentblocking proxy. The version included has been slightly modified by Stefan Waldherr . Notice that the included blocklist is really, really old. kadmin, kprop, krb524, krb5kdc, krb5server Control scripts for a Kerberos 5 server. Kerberos is a network authentication protocol. In order for clients to access a Kerberos server, they need special client software (like 'ftp-client-krb5'). info krb5-admin keytable Not a service in the strict sense of the word. The 'keytable' script loads the selected console keyboard map as set in '/etc/sysconfig/keyboard' (variable KEYTABLE). man loadkeys kheader Not a service, but a startup script which generates the file '/boot/kernel.h' on each boot. This generated file is used during compiling source code. killall Not a service, but a mere short helper script to stop renitent services. kudzu Detects and configures new or changed hardware during boot. You can turn it off and your box will boot faster. You can also start kudzu during normal system operation to configure new hardware. man kudzu ldap LDAP is short for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, a central network service for information stored in databases ('directories'). This script is part of the packages openldap1 and openldap-servers, which are maintained by the ~OpenLDAP project. man ldapd linuxconf Startscript for the Linuxconf central administration system. lpd Either part of the old 'lpr' printer spooler software or its (self-acclaimed) successor, LPRng (ng = next generation). man lpd mandrake_consmap Not a service, but a helper script to set the correct console keymap. mandrake_everytime Mandrake's version of an 'autoexec.bat' (no doubt I'll get myself killed with this comparison ;-)). mandrake_firsttime Not a service. Determines which commands should be run the first time the system is booted. mars-nwe ~NetWare file and print servers which run on Linux systems. mcserv 'mc' (Midnight Commander) is a popular Linux console file manager. 'mc' can access machines running 'mcserv' just like the machine it is running on. Mandrake Linux comes with the 'secure-mcserv' version which offers more access control. man secure-mcserv medusa Medusa is the search/indexing software for the GNOME desktop. man medusa-config microcode_ctl Intel P6 CPU Microcode Utility. man microcode_ctl mon mon is a resource monitor (from networking to room temperature). mosix MOSIX extends the Linux kernel by support for scalable cluster computing. man mosix mysql ~MySQL (SQL = Structured Query Language) provides a database. named Part of BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain), the standard Domain Name Server (DNS) software on Linux. A name server maps IP addresses to machine names. man named.conf nessusd Nessus provides software to remotely scan a network for security holes. man nessusd netatalk Appletalk and Appleshare/IP services for Linux. man netatalk-config netfs Not a service. Calling this script tries to mount all available network shares (NFS, NCP, SMB). man mount netsaint Host/service/network monitoring program, aka Intrusion Detection System. network Not a service. Activates all network interfaces at boot time (or whenever invoked by the 'service' command) by calling the scripts in '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts'. man ifconfig nfs Control script for the Linux NFS server (Network File System), the standard file sharing protocol in Linux/Unix. man nfsd nfslock Starts and stops the NFS file locking service. You will need this on NFS servers as well as clients. man nfsd noflushd The Linux write cache usually prevents disks from spinning down when not in use. noflushd works around this issue. man noflushd nscd 'nscd' is a Name Service Caching Daemon, usually used in combination with NIS+ (Network Information Service) or LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol). ntp Control script for a Time Synchronization Server using the Network Time Protocol. Useful if you have to keep machines in a network in sync. numlock No service. 'Locks' the ~NumLock key at boot, thus making it possible to use the number block on most keyboards to type in numbers. This can get pretty funny when enabled on laptops ... man enable_X11_numlock Next Item: System Services o-y Related Resources:man init Revision / Modified: Mar. 13, 2002 Legal: This page is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License . Standard disclaimers of warranty apply. Copyright LSTB and Mandrakesoft. |
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