stopping services from loading

Kenneth madhse at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 4 11:16:27 MST 2006


I doubt having these running is affecting your performance, unless you have
very little memory to work with.  As someone else said, chkconfig is a
command-line utility to manipulate this stuff if it exists on your system,
and many distros include a graphical utility to check and uncheck services.

--- Michael Havens <bmike101 at cox.net> wrote:

> I was watching bootup and it seems I have a bunch of unnecessary services  
> starting at boot.
> - PCMCIA
> - RAID
> - hcid
> - sdpd
> - SAMBA
> - HP Linux Printing and Imaging
> I'm not wireless (PCMCIA), I'm not backing up across multiple drives  
> (RAID), I don't need BLUETOOTH (hcid/sdpd), and I'm not connected with a  
> Windows box, neither do I have a  an HP Printer/Scanner.
> 
> Am I correct in what I think these services do? Which file do I need to  
> comment these entries out of. Perhaps this is what is slowing things down. 
> 
> What do you think?
> -- 
> :~)MIKE(~:
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