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.<br><br>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.<br><br>http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/lvm2faq.html#AEN279<br><br>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':<br><br><br>[root@router ~]# chkconfig --level 345 mysqld off<br>[root@router ~]# chkconfig --list|grep mysql<br>mysqld&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0:off&nbsp;&nbsp; 1:off&nbsp;&nbsp; 2:off&nbsp;&nbsp;
 3:off&nbsp;&nbsp; 4:off&nbsp;&nbsp; 5:off&nbsp;&nbsp; 6:off<br><br>[root@router ~]# chkconfig --level 345 mysqld on<br>[root@router ~]# chkconfig --list|grep mysql<br>mysqld&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0:off&nbsp;&nbsp; 1:off&nbsp;&nbsp; 2:off&nbsp;&nbsp; 3:on&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4:on&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5:on&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6:off<br><br><br>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.<br><br>Daniel Parraz<br><br><b><i>Michael Havens &lt;bmike101@cox.net&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> I was watching bootup and it seems I have a bunch of unnecessary services  <br>starting at boot.<br>- PCMCIA<br>- RAID<br>- hcid<br>- sdpd<br>- SAMBA<br>- HP Linux Printing and Imaging<br>I'm not wireless (PCMCIA), I'm not backing up across
 multiple drives  <br>(RAID), I don't need BLUETOOTH (hcid/sdpd), and I'm not connected with a  <br>Windows box, neither do I have a  an HP Printer/Scanner.<br><br>Am I correct in what I think these services do? Which file do I need to  <br>comment these entries out of. Perhaps this is what is slowing things down.  <br>What do you think?<br>-- <br>:~)MIKE(~:<br>---------------------------------------------------<br>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change  you mail settings:<br>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<br></blockquote><br><p>&#32;

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