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is Cupsd necesary on a hosting server??

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  1. bsasninja

    bsasninja Well-Known Member

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    I noticed that cupsd (printer server) daemon is running on my server, it starts when the system is booted.
    I think is not necesary to have this up on a hosting machine so how I disable this?

    Thank you
     
    #1 bsasninja, Aug 10, 2006
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    It is definitely not needed:

    service cups stop
    chkconfig cups off
    chkconfig --del cups
     
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    bsasninja Well-Known Member

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    Thanks!

    do you know other common service that could be unnecesary?
    I would like to get rid of unnecesary processes.

    Thanks again.
     
    #3 bsasninja, Aug 10, 2006
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    Some common ones that are running and not usually used:

    If you have an ingress and outgress configured firewall, there's little point in running:
    portsentry

    Also, depending on your OS:

    xfs
    atd
    anacron
    nfslock
    FreeWnn
    canna
    rpcidmapd
    cups-config-daemon
    ntpd
    snmpd
    iiim
    mDNSResponder
    nifd
    auditd
    bluetooth

    If you're not running linux software RAID:

    mdmpd
    mdmonitor

    All the above can be stopped and disabled as per cups above.
     
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  5. bsasninja

    bsasninja Well-Known Member

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    have Centos 4.3 here are the running processes, Im runing kiss as firewall (pure iptables script), and portsentry is running. There is a kauditd I dont know if its the same as auditd

    root@server1 [~]# ps aux
    USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
    root 1 0.0 0.0 2788 556 ? S Aug09 0:07 init [3]
    root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:00 [migration/0]
    root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Aug09 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
    root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:00 [migration/1]
    root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Aug09 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
    root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug09 0:00 [events/0]
    root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug09 0:00 [events/1]
    root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug09 0:00 [khelper]
    root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug09 0:00 [kacpid]
    root 31 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug09 0:00 [kblockd/0]
    root 32 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug09 0:00 [kblockd/1]
    root 33 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:00 [khubd]
    root 42 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:00 [pdflush]
    root 43 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:03 [pdflush]
    root 44 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:03 [kswapd0]
    root 45 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug09 0:00 [aio/0]
    root 46 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug09 0:00 [aio/1]
    root 120 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:00 [kseriod]
    root 189 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug09 0:00 [ata/0]
    root 190 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug09 0:00 [ata/1]
    root 194 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
    root 195 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
    root 196 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
    root 197 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:00 [scsi_eh_3]
    root 224 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:02 [kjournald]
    root 957 0.0 0.0 1908 440 ? S<s Aug09 0:00 udevd
    root 1034 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:00 [shpchpd_event]
    root 1050 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug09 0:00 [kauditd]
    root 1104 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug09 0:00 [kmirrord]
    root 1105 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug09 0:00 [kmir_mon]
    root 1129 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:00 [kjournald]
    root 1130 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:00 [kjournald]
    root 1131 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:05 [kjournald]
    root 1132 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:01 [kjournald]
    root 1133 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:03 [kjournald]
    root 1134 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug09 0:24 [kjournald]
    root 1199 0.0 0.0 3184 432 ttyS0 Ss+ Aug09 0:00 /sbin/agetty ttyS0 9600 vt100-nav
    root 1649 0.0 0.0 2036 592 ? Ss Aug09 0:15 syslogd -m 0
    root 1653 0.0 0.0 2600 472 ? Ss Aug09 0:00 klogd -x
    root 1663 0.0 0.0 2736 468 ? Ss Aug09 0:00 irqbalance
    root 1709 0.0 0.0 5404 992 ? Ss Aug09 0:00 rpc.idmapd
    root 1779 0.0 0.0 2684 544 ? Ss Aug09 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid
    root 1833 0.0 0.0 5456 1688 ? Ss Aug09 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
    root 1863 0.0 0.0 3020 864 ? Ss Aug09 0:01 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
    root 1881 0.0 0.4 13056 8420 ? S Aug09 0:01 chkservd
    root 2056 0.0 0.0 4792 1168 ? Ss Aug09 0:00 crond
    root 2336 0.0 0.0 7264 1824 ? Ss Aug09 0:00 pure-ftpd (SERVER)
    root 2340 0.0 0.0 5772 680 ? S Aug09 0:00 /usr/sbin/pure-authd -s /var/run/ftpd.sock -r /usr/sbin/pureau
    root 2353 0.3 0.5 15032 10984 ? SN Aug09 4:18 cpanellogd - sleeping for logs
    cpanel 2384 0.0 0.0 4952 1704 ? Ss Aug09 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel-4.15local /usr/local/cpanel/etc/stunnel/defau
    dbus 2406 0.0 0.0 13540 1304 ? Ssl Aug09 0:00 dbus-daemon-1 --system
    root 2454 0.0 0.2 8032 5392 ? Ss Aug09 0:16 hald
    root 2487 0.0 0.0 1476 492 ? Ss Aug09 0:00 /usr/sbin/portsentry -tcp
    named 3004 0.0 0.3 53624 7692 ? Ssl Aug09 0:22 /usr/sbin/named -u named
    root 3296 0.0 0.0 2520 404 tty1 Ss+ Aug09 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
    root 3297 0.0 0.0 3048 404 tty2 Ss+ Aug09 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
    root 3298 0.0 0.0 1672 400 tty3 Ss+ Aug09 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
    root 3299 0.0 0.0 2912 404 tty4 Ss+ Aug09 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
    root 3300 0.0 0.0 2592 404 tty5 Ss+ Aug09 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
    root 3301 0.0 0.0 2144 400 tty6 Ss+ Aug09 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
    root 18777 0.0 0.0 5968 1076 ? S Aug09 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --pid-fi
    mysql 18798 0.5 1.2 106332 25912 ? Sl Aug09 6:16 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=m
    root 19759 0.0 0.4 12568 9168 ? S Aug09 0:50 cppop - accepting on port 110
    root 20261 0.0 0.9 30596 19132 ? Ss Aug09 0:12 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
    mailnull 6772 0.0 0.0 8544 1720 ? Ss 00:34 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -oX 8025
    mailnull 6778 0.0 0.0 8756 1732 ? Ss 00:34 0:07 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
    mailnull 6784 0.0 0.0 8392 1704 ? Ss 00:34 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -tls-on-connect -bd -oX 465
    root 6789 0.2 0.0 3204 1456 ? S 00:34 2:57 antirelayd
    root 6798 0.0 1.0 26292 22512 ? Ss 00:34 0:01 /usr/bin/spamd -d --allowed-ips=127.0.0.1 --pidfile=/var/run/s
    root 6705 0.0 0.5 12256 10780 ? S 04:37 0:01 cpsrvd - waiting for connections
    root 13316 0.0 1.2 29624 25992 ? S 15:44 0:00 spamd child
    root 2327 0.4 1.5 35216 31528 ? S 17:23 0:16 spamd child
    nobody 6779 0.3 1.2 37704 26648 ? S 17:41 0:07 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
    nobody 6782 0.4 1.1 34952 23888 ? S 17:41 0:11 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
    nobody 6786 0.2 1.1 35036 23984 ? S 17:41 0:06 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
    nobody 7108 0.2 1.1 35244 24176 ? S 17:44 0:06 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
    nobody 8739 0.1 1.0 33644 22556 ? S 17:56 0:02 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
    dismotio 10607 0.0 0.0 7296 1988 ? SN 17:59 0:00 pure-ftpd (IDLE)
    nobody 11909 0.0 1.1 34936 23828 ? S 18:08 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
    lacajade 12531 0.0 0.0 7296 1984 ? SN 18:12 0:00 pure-ftpd (IDLE)
     
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    bsasninja Well-Known Member

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    I reduce also unnecesary ttys.
     
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    Tell us more about anacron. What does it do, what is the viulnerability and can it be disabled in CentOS 4?

    Rick
     
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    chirpy Well-Known Member

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    :) Most people don't use it, so you shouldn't run it so that it cannot be abused.
     
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