On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 15:20, Dave Sherman wrote: > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 14:49, Sreekumar Kodakara wrote: > > Hi, > > I have installed RH6.2 in an embedded system. I found that the machine > > takes a long time to boot starting many daemons ( like sendmail etc) and > > also checking for new hardware which is not required in this system. I > > would be grateful to you if you can tell me how to prevent these > > to make the boot time faster. > > Thanks > > Sreekumar > > If you only want to *disable* automatic startup of certain services at > boot, then look in the various /etc/rc.d/rc*.d directories, and delete > (or rename with a lower-case first letter 's') the startup scripts you > do not want to run. Note that these files are really just symlinks to > the real files in /etc/rc.d/init.d, so if you delete the links, your > actual startup scripts will remain intact for later use. Also, the rc*.d > directories are numbered based on the runlevel you boot into. If you > boot to a command prompt (no GUI), then rc3.d is the place to focus. If > you boot to X, then look in rc5.d. But this is RedHat, so the correct way to manage services in this case is to use chkconfig. man chkconfig should give you enough to start with. -- Brent Metzler | AIM: bmetzl1999 brent at bmetzler.org | Y! : bmetzl1999 612-270-0119 | ICQ: 43952639