Features/PowerManagement/initscripts

Init scripts

The interesting init scripts for power management are those which are switch on by default. New services had been probably added after this review (February 2009). The simplest way how to check most of them was installed all packages which have init script in rawhide (future F-11) and then review them. Our attempt lead to new daemon which should started services on demand. But because of small number of services, which could be handled that way was [soud] refused. Services of appropriate devices should be catching events from upstart/udev/DeviceKit instead of new daemon.

Part of the review was going through comps, whether there exist some barely used services in @base or so on, but nothing had been found.

The different types of hardware services

package	device	/etc/rc.d/init.d/	comment
bluez	bluetooth	bluetooth	patch in [bugzilla]
fnfx	only for Toshiba laptops	fnfxd	Verify manufacture: "dmidecode -s system-manufacturer" and output will be f.e. "Dell Inc."
isdn4k-utils	configuration of isdn	isdn	/etc/rc.d/init.d/isdn
microcode_ctl	updates the microcode on Intel x86/x86-64 CPU's	microcode_ctl	Verify CPU: "dmidecode -s processor-manufacturer" output will be f.e. "Intel" and command uname give us architecture name f.e. "x86_64"
mt-st	tape drive management Mt (for magnetic tape drives) and st (for SCSI tape devices)	stinit	devices are connected through scsi (the better one) and usb (low-end devices)
openct	PC/SC-Lite, as CT-API driver, have primitive mechanism to export smart card readers to remote machines via TCP/IP	openct	udev wasn't sending information about our smart card reader inclued in keyboard
pcsc-lite	PC/SC Lite is to provide a Windows(R) SCard interface	pcscd	probably same problem as the previous smart card reader

Notes: bluez is widely installed, so it should be fixed. Other services are not installed in any base group and the hardware like magnetic tape is not widely used. So probably there is no point of fixing these other services. In this list is not irda which has not service on by default. If there were fixes for interacting services with hardware on the event then it should be also fixed.

The service for printer

package	device	/etc/rc.d/init.d/	comment
oki4linux	printers OL400w	oki4linux
cups	printers with various input: lpt, usb, lan	cups

For possible switching off printing service:

• must be checked lpt, usb, lan (we can hardly check whether here is printer or not)
• some programmes could be dependent on running cups even for printing into file

The services related with network

package	device	comment
ices	streaming server	maybe it should be up only for streaming?
ifplugd	automatically configure your ethernet device when a cable is plugged in	this is now done by NetworkManager?
nas	audio equivalent of an X display server	could be off without network?
nfs-utils	NFS utilities and supporting clients and daemons for the kernel NFS server	only with network?
qpidd	An AMQP message broker daemon	only on network?
rpcbind	Universal Addresses to RPC Program Number Mapper	only on network?
samba	Samba Suite of programs	only on network?
ser	sip server	only on network?
munin-node	Network-wide graphing framework	only on network?

Probably many of these services could be switch off, if the network is down. But probably these services for advanced users which are not of top of our list.

Various services

package	device	comment
libvirt	should be off and started when qemu or something is started
mdadm	for sw raid
qemu	needs libvirtd on
wine-core	must be running all the time
wine-desktop
xen	could it be somehow check
xen-runtime
zfs-fuse	filesystem
ocfs2	only for cluster