I have installed FC2 on an older Dell desktop. I've added NTOP and MRTG and intend to use this box for network monitoring near the edge of my network. Even though the box will be inside the firewall, I want to harden it (remove unnecessary services) as much as possible before I deploy. I've looked through the MAN pages, but can find no listing for the daemon's below. Can anyone tell me what these are and whether I need them for basic server operation?

netfs
mdmpd
ypm
mdmonitor
isdn
nfslock

I did find listings for two daemons that I don't think I need, but can keep if anyone has a good reason for doing so.

anacron (I'm using cron for scheduled tasks)
rhnsd (I'm using yum).

Thanks in advance for your help.

...Dale...

Hi,

Don't know everything but I think I have some answers for you:
netfs: probably network filesystem... so if you don't share some fs, I think you can remove it
isdn: Integrated Service Digital Network... a protocol (WAN link) which allow 64Kbit connection by default. I'm sure you can remove that... 'cause even in France it's less and less used
nfslock: that's about NFS (Network File System)... maybe a deamon to avoid concurential access. Don't need it
and this is the ultimate link for other services

Oliv'