Re: Skipping Daemon Loading at Boot-Up

[Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy>]

Hi,

under /etc/rc.d/init.d/

there are several sscripts which are run at startup and shutdown time.

sendmail is started by calling the script as follows:

"sendmail start"

to stop it

"sendmail stop"

A quick way that I use to disable the script is to edit it using vi and
insert the following lines at the top of the script (again sendmail is
the example)

echo "sendmail disabled in /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail - Ahbaid 19990118";
exit; 

this then gives me feedback in case I forgot that this was done and the
script exits.

You may also wish to try webmin, it's avaialable from www.webmin.com
and is a web based system administration utility, it handles this and
other areas quite nicely.

Ahbaid.




Kurt Harper wrote:
> 
> I installed RH 5.2 on my machine yesterday. When it is booting, httpd
> hangs for an inordinate amount of time, then the following process --smpd?--
> just plain hangs. Is there a key combination like Ctrl-C to force
> skipping that? Then where do I go to remove it from the boot-up itinerary?
> 
> At present I cannot get a full boot-up of Linux. Thanks in advance for
> your help once again!
> 
>         --Kurt
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