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There are services enabled by default with your operating system that are not necessary for most web servers. This function will disable the following services: portmap - Used by NFS to map network drives cupsd - Used for printing atd - Demon for "at", similar to cron jobs. nfs statd - Used for NFS file system mounting. nis - Network information service gpm - Console mouse services If you see a [FAILED] error message, this means that the service was not running when the scanner tried to shut it down. This is not a problem, the service will still be prevented from automatically starting.

 

1. Click on the "Proceed" button.

 

2. You should see information similar to the following displayed:

 

Note: You may see [FAILED] results below; These are normal as this means the service(s) were already shutdown.

 

Stopping portmap: [FAILED]

Stopping atd: [FAILED]

Stopping cups: [  OK  ]

Shutting down console mouse services: [FAILED]

Shutting down NIS services: [FAILED]

Stopping NFS statd: [FAILED]