Re: stopping services from loading

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 <daniyel95@yahoo.com>
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 <bmike101@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?



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