[NTLUG:Discuss] disabling rc scripts

[Chris Cox]

Vaidya, Harshal (Cognizant) wrote:

>Hi all,
>  how do you disable startup services like portmapper from /etc/rc.d/init.d.
>

My favorite way is by renaming the rc#.d/SXXportmap ... usually I just 
rename them
to have a lowercase 's'.  That way, if I ever need them again, I can 
just rename them
back (you probably want to do likewise with the 'K' scripts... renaming 
them with
lowercase 'k').  Of course in SuSE, you adjust a variable in rc.config 
instead.

To find them, I usually to to /etc and do something like:
# find . -name "*portmap" -print

The /etc/init.d directory will usually give you enough hint as to the 
suffix used
on the SXX and KXX scripts for the runlevels.