I want to deactivate some services from starting up at boot (or more precisely when I switch to run level 5). ksysv is a vey nice tool for doinf this, only the descriptions for the various services are blank.

Where can I get descriptions for the services? Is it just a case on 'man name_of_daemon' (forgot to try this ;)

Otherwise can someone tell me either
a. what services I definately should leave running
b. what services are started by defaul after a Knoppix (debain-style install).

TIA