OHHHHHHHH..... pcmcia are cards. DO you mean PCI cards or memory cards? I truly appreciate your help./ Will issuing these commands also prevent them from starting at boot? On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:08:08 -0700, Daniel Parraz wrote: > If you dont have any pcmcia cards to hotplug or detect, pcmcia can be > taken out. Software RAID can prolly be disabled, as you said you don't > use any kind of linear or mirroring of drives on this system. Hcid and > sdpd are bluetooth, and since you don't have it, and Samba since your > not using SMB file sharing, and HP printer support, can all be disabled > from what you stated of your environment. > > Lvm is linux volume management, I can assume it's not being used on your > system, but I would prolly take a look at the docs before I shut it off. > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/lvm2faq.html#AEN279 > > Otherwise, i usually use this to manipulate service startup, or if your > using a RH distro, there is a menu system on cmd line called 'ntsysv': > > > [root@router ~]# chkconfig --level 345 mysqld off > [root@router ~]# chkconfig --list|grep mysql > mysqld 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off > > [root@router ~]# chkconfig --level 345 mysqld on > [root@router ~]# chkconfig --list|grep mysql > mysqld 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > > > Depending on your run level, which i will assume is not 3, but prolly 5 > since your running a gui, these should suffice for shutting off these > services. Hope this helped. > > Daniel Parraz > > Michael Havens 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(~: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss