{"id":1280,"date":"2010-07-14T23:59:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T18:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/14\/linux-managing-applications-running-on-system-start-up\/"},"modified":"2016-12-19T15:19:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T09:49:22","slug":"linux-managing-applications-running-on-system-start-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/linux-managing-applications-running-on-system-start-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux &#8211; Managing applications running on system start-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rcconf is a tool that we recently discovered. This tool allows you to manage your start-up applications easily.<\/p>\n<p>We found this tool when me and my colleague Aman were trying to identify the processes that we never use but they do eat up a lot of our system resources. We found this link very useful: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debianadmin.com\/manage-linux-init-or-startup-scripts.html\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.debianadmin.com\/manage-linux-init-or-startup-scripts.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The other way to manage system start-up applications is as the page suggests, by using update-rc.d, but rcconf provides an interface which is easy to understand and use.<\/p>\n<p>To install rcconf, run the following command on your command line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo apt-get install rcconf<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To run rcconf, you&#8217;ll need sudo privileges:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo rcconf<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The application looks like :<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-ttn-blog\/uploads\/2010\/07\/rcconf.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1282\" title=\"rcconf\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-ttn-blog\/uploads\/2010\/07\/rcconf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* means that application is a part of startup<br \/>\nUse spacebar to uncheck the application<\/p>\n<p>Save the settings and restart your linux box. I removed unused applications like postgres, tomcat, monit, bluetooth etc.<\/p>\n<p>And my system does feel a bit faster \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Regards<br \/>\n~~Himanshu Seth~~<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.tothenew.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rcconf is a tool that we recently discovered. This tool allows you to manage your start-up applications easily. We found this tool when me and my colleague Aman were trying to identify the processes that we never use but they do eat up a lot of our system resources. We found this link very useful: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4},"categories":[1],"tags":[260,335,334],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}