# written by luis murillo. thanks, man acpi-support: This checks whether the machine is using batteries, such as a laptop, or not acpid: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface alsa: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture anacron: Periodic command scheduler apmd: Advanced Power Management atd: Deferred Execution Scheduler binfmt-support: Additional executable binary formats bootclean.sh: Cleans up /tmp, /var/run and /var/lock bootlogd: Bootlog Daemon bootmisc.sh: Miscellaneous things to be done during bootup. checkfs.sh: Checks all filesystems checkroot.sh: Checks the root filesystem console-screen.sh: Console-Tools Package cron: Daemon to execute scheduled commands cupsys: Common UNIX Printing System dansguardian: Web-Filtering dbus-1: System Message Bus dns-clean: Cleans up any mess left by 0dns-up dnsmasq: DNS proxy and DHCP server evms: Enterprise Volume Management System fetchmail: Remote Mail Retrieval firestarter: Firestarter Firewall gdm: GNOME Display Manager halt: Halt the system hdparm: Hard Disk Parameters hostname.sh: Sets the system's Hostnames hotplug: Hotplug Subsystem hwclock.sh: Set and adjust the CMOS clock hwclockfirst.sh: Set system clock to hardware clock ifupdown: Tools to configure network interfaces ifupdown-clean: Deletes the state file of ifupdown inetd: Internet Super-Server initrd-tools.sh: Unmount and free the initrd keymap.sh: Loads the keymap klogd: Kernel Log libdevmapper1.00: Device manager for libdevmapper lvm: LVM makedev: Creates the DVD-Devices mdadm: RAID Monitoring mdadm-raid: RAID Devices module-init-tools: Loads extra Modules mountall.sh: Mounts all filesystems mountnfs.sh: Mounts the Network File Systems mountvirtfs: Mounts all the virtual filesystems nessusd: Remote network security auditor networking: Configures the Network Interfaces nfs-common: Network File System Client nfs-kernel-server: Network File System Server ntp-server: Time Server ntpdate: Sets the system time using an NTP Server nvidia-glx: nVidia Drivers partimaged: Partition Image portmap: RPC Portmapper postfix: Mail Transport Agent powernowd: Processor Scaling ppp: Point-to-point Protocol pppd-dns: Restore /etc/resolv.conf procps.sh: Sets Kernel variables rc: Starts and Stops services on runlevel switch rc.iptables: Arno's Firewall Script rcS: Calls the scripts in /etc/rcS.d readahead: Reads files into the page cache reboot: Reboots the system resolvconf: Nameserver information manager rmnologin: Removes /etc/nologin rsync: Fast remote file copy program samba: Samba Server/Client screen-cleanup: Removes stale screen named pipes on bootup sendsigs: Kills all remaining processes single: Single-user mode skeleton: Example Initscript spamassassin: Spam Filtering squid: Proxy Server ssh: Secure Shell Server stop-bootlogd: Bootlog Daemon (Stop) sudo: Limited Super User privileges sysklogd: System Log udev: /dev/ managment udev-mtab: adds to /etc/mtab entries for /dev and /.dev umountfs: Unmounts the Filesystems umountnfs.sh: Unmounts the Network File Systems urandom: Saves random seed between reboots vbesave: saves the VESA state winbind: service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT servers xorg-common: X Server