[wplug] running "lean"

[Juan Zuluaga]

From
http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/oldpc/top10.html
some advise that may be relevant:
-8-
Reduce your tty's. You don't need six. You probably
don't even need four. You'll find them in your
/etc/inittab in the 'getty' lines. Stick a # in front
of some of the lines (starting with the highest
number). 
-6-
You probably won't be using an old PC as a network
server, so you won't be needing inetd, nfsd, mountd
and portmap. In Slackware they can be removed by
editing the "Initialize Net Subsystem" section of
/etc/rc.d/rc.M. Just put a # in front of the line
which refers to rc.inet2. Other distributions have
different startup scripts, but the principle is the
same.
BTW turning off these network daemons has no effect
your network clients. You will still be able to
telnet, ftp, mount nfs, etc.
-5-
Have a look at your other daemons and consider whether
they are really necessary. Sendmail is not required if
you are using an ISP for your mail server. Lpr is not
required if you aren't using a printer. You may even
consider removing syslogd and klogd.
-4-
Simplify your modules. You probably have megabytes of
module junk, which depmod has to chew through every
time you boot your system. Figure out which modules
your system uses and delete the rest. You are probably
using only two or three modules. You don't need a huge
automated structure designed to load hundreds of
modules. Get rid of /etc/modules/2.?.??/modules.dep.
Remove kerneld, depmod and modprobe from your startup
scripts. All you need is insmod. 


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