Startup services... which are needed?

If I dont set up any schedules, are these services required at bootup?

What about ipvsadmin, the Linux Virtual Server?

I know you can get away with tossing out the Vertual Server. I am not sure about the ipvsadmin, may need it, may not.

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I am still wondering about cron and anacrom though. Can these be disabled if I dont schedule anything, or does the system need them?

Yeah, you can det rid of cron and anacron if you don't use em'.
Since you have to actually manually add cronjobs etc,... you won't
have anything trying to use em' if you haven't done so. I got rid of them myself, Slack and
Mandrake don't seem to care.

You don't need to run BOTH cron and anacron, but you might want to leave one running (cron perferrably). It doesn't eat up much as far as resources, and some of the scripts in /etc/cron.* do cleanups and such on log files.

What is the big difference between cron and anacron then?

Anacron is a periodic command scheduler. It executes commands at intervals specified in days. Unlike cron, it does not assume that the system is running continuously. It can therefore be used to control the execution of daily, weekly, and monthly jobs (or anything with a period of n days), on systems that don't run 24 hours a day. When installed and configured properly, Anacron will make sure that the commands are run at the specified intervals as closely as machine-uptime permits.