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System Services IVSummary:
Annotated List of System Services (o-y)oki4daemonNeeded to support printing from the OKI 4w and similar Windows only printers. olympusd Deprecated in ML 8.1. Please see the attic page. opennap Deprecated in ML 8.1. Please see the attic page. pcmcia Part of the Card Services for Linux Project software which supports PCMCIA (PC-Memory Card International Association) cards frequently used in laptops. man pcmcia pop-before-smtp Watch log for pop/imap auth, notify Postfix to allow relay. Useful for relaying email when away from home/office and using someone else's IP space. man pop-before-smtp portmap Security tool needed for Remote Procedure Calls, especially in NIS and NFS connections. man portmap portsentry Starts or stops the Psionic ~PortSentry 'Port Scan Detection and Active Defense System' which monitors ports for scans and blocks scanning hosts immediately. postfix The standard mail server software in Mandrake Linux, a replacement for sendmail. You will need it when your mail reader can't get or send its mail on its own or if you want to provide mail services for a network. man postfix postgresql ~PostgreSQL provides a database server similar to ~MySQL. powertweakd.init Powertweak is a program to tune your kernel and hardware settings for optimal performance. pptpd.conf ~PoPToP is a free implementation of a PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) server, needed to connect Virtual Private Networks (VPN). man pptpd prelude Prelude is a sophisticated Intrusion Detection System (IDS). proftpd Control script for the standard Mandrake Linux FTP server, ~ProFTPd . psacct Allows monitoring process activities. info accounting pure-ftpd ~PureFTPd (cl)aims to be a compliant, secure, easy and then some FTP server. man pureftpd pvm PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) allows you to use a network of Unix and NT computers as a single virtual parallel machine. man pvm pxe Linux PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) package. radiusd Cistron RADIUS daemon (with PAM). Used at ISP's to authenticate user logins. man radiusd radvd Control script for the Linux IPv6 Router Advertisement Daemon . You'll need this to take advantage of the IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration feature (don't ask ...). man radvd random No service. Improves the generation of random numbers (needed for security). man 4 random rawdevices No service. "This scripts assigns raw devices to block devices (such as hard drive partitions)." Useful for databases (or so I'm told). routed 'routed' is the Network Routing Daemon. You will need this if your machine acts as a router (obviously) for other machines in your network (e.g. as a gateway into another network like the Internet). man routed rstatd, rusersd, rwalld, rwhod Provide access to information (status, users) or services (send messages) useful when maintaining a multiuser network. saslauthd 'saslauthd' is the SASL server. SASL is the Simple Authentication and Security Layer. sendmail The standard Internet mail server. In Mandrake Linux now replaced by ~PostFix (but still part of the distribution). If your mail client is capable of sending and receiving mail itself (e.g. Netscape Mail, kmail, Pine), you don't need it. man sendmail sensors This skript starts or stops 'sensord', a hardware monitoring daemon and part of the lm_sensors hardware monitoring software. man sensors shorewall Shorewall is a firewall / masquerader to be used on single systems (i.e. a desktop firewall). single No service. Executed when putting the system into runlevel 1 ('single user' or 'rescue' mode). smb Needed for running SAMBA, the Server Message Block Protocol Server. It allows you to provide file and printer sharing services to MS-Windows clients and to access shares on those machines from your Linux box. man samba snortd Control script for the Snort Intrusion Detection System. sound No service. Starts / stops sound device and loads / saves mixer settings. squid Squid is a web proxy caching server (and much more). Although configuration isn't trivial, it can speed up net access for clients considerably. sshd Control script for an ~OpenSSH server, a terminal services server using strong encryption, bound to replace inherently insecure services such as telnet or ftp. sockd Dante is a free Socks v4/v5 server implementation. man sockd sympa Control script for the Sympa mailing list management software (server end, not client end). man sympa syslog System Message Logger, i.e. it writes system or service messages to so called log files ('/var/log/*'). man sysklogd syslog-ng syslog-ng (ng = next generation) intends to replace sysklogd. It adds the possibility to filter based on message contents using regular expressions. man syslog-ng storage-server, ftpagent, httpagent, linuxagent, visu-engine A base structure for systems monitoring. tux Control script for the kernel based TUX web server. snmpd Control script for the project formerly known as 'ucd-snmp', now as NET-SNMP . It is an implementation of the Simple Network Management Protocol (nomen est omen). If you know more, you know more than me. man snmpd tinyproxy A lightweight, non-caching, optionally anonymizing http proxy. man tinyproxy udhcpd Very lightweight dhcp server. man udhcpd ups Part of the former 'smartupstools', now called NUT (Network UPS Tools). This package allows the control of Uninterruptable Power Supplies over a network (you might have guessed that). upsmon, upsd, upspowerdown Part of the NUT project (Network UPS Tools). Refer to ups above. Pertinence: Optional. Package: nut, nut-server. Doc: man upsd usb No service. When called (usually during boot) this script starts or stops USB (Universal Serial Bus) devices by loading or unloading the appropriate drivers (kernel modules). You are advised not to run this script during system operation. vanilla Netrek Vanilla Server. vncserver Part of the Virtual Network Computing software. VNC allows you to remotely display / view / manage the desktop of another machine. It is platform-independent. vpb A user mode API for voicetronix telephony hardware. vrrpd Deprecated in ML 8.1. Refer to the attic page. watchdog 'watchdog' monitors a machine and reboots it if a system freeze is detected (sounds funny, but works). man watchdog webmin Webmin is a web based system administration suite (an alternative to Linuxconf). wine WINE tries to build a Windows compatibility layer software (i.e. it intends to enable you to run Windows programs on Linux). This script enables users to run Windows applications by just clicking on them (well, in theory at least ...) wwwoffled WWW Offline Explorer - Caching Web Proxy Server. man wwwoffle xfs X Font Server. In the standard X configuration of Mandrake Linux, X won't run without a working font server. man xfs xinetd xinetd controls, logs or redirects accesses to other servers running on the same machine. It replaces inetd. man xinetd xntpd Synchronizes system time using the Network Time Protocol (NTP). Same as the ntp package. ypbind NIS Binder. Only needed if your computer is part of a NIS (Network Information Service) domain (yp for its old name 'yellow pages'). man ypbind yppasswdd, ypserv, ypxfrd Scripts to control an NIS server. man ypserv 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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