I went up through setting up and configuration of Fedora server. The installation went incredibly smooth. I must admit that Sulphur is lightning fast, although I loaded my server with over 1200 files. I followed almost to the point the advice of another Howto on Forge.org who recommends to stop the following services in order to free system resources and enhance security. The guy tells us to disable the following:
- acpid
- anacron
- apmd
- autofs
- bluetooth
- cups
- firstboot
- gpm
- haldaemon
- messagebus
- mdmonitor
- hidd
- ip6tables
- kudzu
- lvm2-monitor
- netfs
- nfslock
- pcscd
- portmap
- rpcgssd
- rpcidmapd
- sendmail
- smartd
- yum-updates
I agree with most of his choices but would recommend to proceed carefully. I recall that once after I disabled cups services on one of Linux machines(because I did not intend to use the server for printing), the machine kept on generating errors until I just damned it all and enabled it back. For that reason I would not recommend for you to disable messagebus, kudzu and lvm2-monitor. Besides, some of you may be using Midnight Commander, so you will definitely need gpm. And those of you who prefer sendmail as your SMTP and iptables for security would, naturally, keep them too.
There is another suggestion. If you have time and resources don’t move your critically important stuff to the newly set up server. Give it time and let it steam for a while. Check the logs from time to time and see how it runs. This is especially true with experimental platforms like Fedora. You don’t wanna get stressed with unusual kernel panics or unexpected freezing of some services at the time when you don’t expect it.
By making sure that everything is in sync and working well, you will save your time and money and will have a hi-quality server that will run headache-free for the next several years. Among servers park of our web analytics company we still have older versions of Fedora servers running smoothly for over three years without causing us problems. We tested each platform for thirty days each before moving them to do some serious business for us.