Local Services

Key:
Process - process name
Purpose - what does the deamon do
Start/Stop - how do start/stop/restart the daemon
Port - what port does the daemon communicate on if applicable
On/Off - should the daemon be running normally

Process

Purpose

Start/Stop

Port

On/Off

/fs/local/apps/ganglia-3.1.7/sbin/gmond

Ganglia daemon - sends system stats to dasgmon every 15 seconds

/etc/init.d/gmond start/stop

udp 8649 to dasgmon.ucar.edu

on

/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/fail2ban-server

Fail2ban - drops all connections from a non-ucar host after 10 unsuccessful ssh login attempts for 15 minutes

/etc/init.d/fail2ban start/stop

n/a

on

Linux Process Table (Redhat)

Process

Purpose

Start/Stop

Port

On/Off

gdmgreeter

Graphical login display

 

 

on for graphics systems only

irqbalance

distribute hardware interrupts across processors on a multiprocessor system

 

 

on

migration

kernel thread responsible for moving threads between cpus

 

 

on

ksoftirqd

per-cpu kernel thread that runs when the machine is under heavy soft-interrupt load

 

 

on

khelper

kernel thread which is used for making calls out to userspace
applications from within the kernel

 

 

on

kacpid

related to ACPI (power management stuff)

 

 

 

rpciod

NFS client process

 

 

on

pdflush

flushes dirty pages in order to ensure that there is enough free memory and things won't get lost in a system crash

 

 

 

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