How To Manage "system Services (runlevel)" - SuSE Linux Forums

nfs depends on portmapper. Disable portmapper too.

below settings are for beginners, but you should learn what these are for:
aaeventd if you don't want and don't know how to use apparmor disable this (also switch to expert mode and disable boot.apparmor)
acpid leave
alsasound leave
atd disable
auditd disable
autofs disable
autoyast disable
cron leave
cups (if you have printer leave othervise disable)
cupsrenice (see above)
dbus leave
earlykbd leave!!! keaboard
earlykdm leave
earlysyslog leve
esound disable
fam disable
fbset disable
gpm disable
gssd disable
haldaemon leave
idmapd disable
joystick disable (unless you are using it)
kbd leave keyboard
ksysguardd disable
lirc disable
lm_sencors disable
mdadmd disable
mdnsd disable
mircocode (if you are using AMD CPU disable, leave for intel)
network leave
nfs disable (first disable portmap)
nfsboot disable
nfsserver disable
nmb disable
novell-zmd (well this is famous suse updater, if you are using other PM disable, otherwise leave, but this piece of c**p crashes frequently)
nscd disable
ntp disable
openct disable
pscsd disable
portmap disable
postfix disable
powerd disable
pwersaved (leave for suspend, othervise disable)
random leave
raw disable
resmgr leave
rpasswdd disable
rsyncd
running-kernel disable
saslauthd disable
smb disable
smbfs disable
smpppd disable
spamd disable
splash leave (or not - this is splash screen during boot process)
splash_early leave
SuSEfirewall2_setup leave
svcgssd disable
syslog leave
xdm leave
xfs disable
xinetd disable
ybind disable


the above settings are for simple workstation you should also disable sshd not listed by you. for some services there is not really value e.g. running-kernel (this is not kernel, but info about), moreover this sevice will start after each kernel upgrade, so each time you will have to stop it.
I suggest to learn about apparmor, nfs, and samba/nfs, xinetd at least and when you know and need these, start services and configure them.
If you disable earlysyslog/syslog you will not be able to use network. cron is needed for several services so you should leave running these.

hope this will help

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