Services to safely disable?
 

What services can I disable in SuSE? I know I don't need postfix, and I don't know if anything in the system needs cron but I sure don't ;) Basically, what can I turn off if I just want a vanilla desktop environment?

run ps -e and post the output, so we can see what you have running

jrtayloriv

Here's tje output:

PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:01 init
2 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
3 ? 00:00:00 events/0
4 ? 00:00:00 khelper
5 ? 00:00:00 netlink/0
6 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
28 ? 00:00:00 kapmd
30 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
31 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
33 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
32 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
616 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
1481 ? 00:00:00 reiserfs/0
1890 ? 00:00:00 khubd
1948 ? 00:00:00 udevd
2283 ? 00:00:00 hwscand
3359 ? 00:00:00 dhcpcd
3469 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
3472 ? 00:00:00 klogd
3492 ? 00:00:00 resmgrd
3506 ? 00:00:00 portmap
3587 ? 00:00:00 sshd
3738 ? 00:00:00 powersaved
3884 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
3900 ? 00:00:00 nscd
3936 ? 00:00:00 kdm
3963 ? 00:06:17 X
3974 ? 00:00:00 kdm
4069 ? 00:00:00 master
4100 ? 00:00:00 qmgr
4131 ? 00:00:00 cron
4139 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty
4140 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
4141 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
4142 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
4143 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
4144 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
4167 ? 00:00:00 startkde
4227 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
4230 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
4232 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
4235 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit
4244 ? 00:00:01 artsd
4246 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit
4247 ? 00:00:00 kwrapper
4249 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
4250 ? 00:00:03 kdeinit
4253 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
4254 ? 00:00:03 kdeinit
4256 ? 00:00:08 kdeinit
4259 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit
4261 ? 00:00:02 kdeinit
4263 ? 00:00:03 kdeinit
4372 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit
4387 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
4888 ? 00:00:00 pickup
4939 ? 00:00:00 firefox
4950 ? 00:00:00 run-mozilla.sh
4955 ? 00:00:06 firefox-bin
4960 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
4968 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit
4969 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
4980 pts/1 00:00:00 ps


Thanks.