Help: Removing Unnecessary extra services installed by virtualmin

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#1 Mon, 10/19/2009 - 04:26
humvee

Help: Removing Unnecessary extra services installed by virtualmin

I have installed virtualmin/webmin on a debian 5.0 Lenny server using install.sh and feel I have ended up with alot of extra services I dont need and whant to know if I can safely remove them and how

1st up what the server WONT be doing

Receiving emails

Hosting Mailboxes

Hosting DNS locally

PostGreSQL

What the server WILL be doing

Serving Websites

Apache

PHP5

Mysql

Sending emails

Virtual Servers/Hosts

Quotas

webmin/virtualmin

Based on this I dont think I need

POP3

POP3S

IMAP

IMAPS

Postgre

BIND

CLAMAV

SpamAssassin

Is this correct?, can I safely remove these? is so what is the best/easiest way

Thanks in advance

Mon, 10/19/2009 - 06:56
andreychek

Howdy,

My recommendation would be to set anything you don't need to simply not start up, rather than removing it.

To stop the service, and remove it from bootup, you can go into Webmin -> System -> Bootup and Shutdown, and make the changes there.

In addition to the list of services you mentioned that you don't need (which appear correct for your requirements), you may also want to disable Mailman, you probably won't need that either.

-Eric

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