Disabling a Service

A running service can be disabled in order to stop the service and make it unavailable. Once disabled, a service can then be re-enabled. See the Section called Enabling a Service for information.

There are several situations in which a running service may need to be disabled:

• To modify a service

  A running service must be disabled before it can be modified. See the Section called Modifying a Service for more information.

• To temporarily stop a service

  A running service can be disabled, making it unavailable to clients without having to completely delete the service.

To disable a running service, invoke the cluadmin utility and specify the service disable service_name command. For example:

cluadmin> service disable user_home
Are you sure? (yes/no/?) y
notice: Stopping service user_home  ...
notice: Service user_home is disabled
service user_home disabled