Router services enabled for no apparent reason

[decedion]

There are several services I see on the scMerlin addon page that I don’t understand why they are enabled, since I haven’t activated them and don’t need them:

I don’t use FTP, Samba, or DDNS on the router, so why are these services running? Can I disable them?
The same goes for the OpenVPN and WireGuard clients/servers.
Thanks. Regards.

 

[Ripshod]

The only one of your highlighted services that's actually "active" by default is Samba (in USB Application) which needs to be disabled if that's what you want.
I believe that part of the scMerlin menu is hard-coded - ie, it doesn't actually scan for active services.

 

[decedion]

Ok, then I don’t understand the usefulness of scMerlin if it doesn’t show the services that are actually running and allows you to “restart” any service, whether it’s really active or not.

 

[Tech9]

RMerlin himself recommended NOT to use this specific add-on.