services

sulekha · 09-10-2007, 02:21 AM

Hi all,

i recently downloaded a command line utility named sysv-rc-conf for enabling/disabling services in different runlevels.This utility is showing
far more services than shown by system -> administration -> services GUI tool. now i am able to see many services such as brltty, loopback, rmnologin,dbus festival .....

now my question is as follows

what are the following services and what do they signify??

1)loopback
2)rmnologin
3)mtab
4)hotkey-se
5)module-in
6)mountvirt
7) urandom

AlucardZero · 09-10-2007, 06:35 AM

hotkey-se(tup) is for your hotkeys, such as Function+FX for suspend. If you're not on a laptop or don't use them you probably don't care.

urandom is a source of randomness that many programs use. don't stop it.

rmnologin allows you to log in once the system has booted far enough.

that's all I know off the top of my head.