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Re: Autoloading of Sendmail ??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William P. Maguire)
Sat Nov 2 09:14:42 1996
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 07:14:51 -0700
From: "William P. Maguire" <maguire@wiley.holbrook.k12.az.us>
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Mitchell Leben wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Mike Armour wrote:
>
> > I've recompiled my kernel , but I'm confused as to how to turn off the
> > starting of sendmail, iNN etc ?? Sorry for the simple questions , noobie
> > alert <g>
>
> Here is how *I* do it. There are other ways. I find this flexible, in
> case I change my mind later.
>
> First, look in /etc/rc.d/init.d. These are the scripts that start and
> stop various things. From my machine:
>
> [root@spock init.d]# pwd
> /etc/rc.d/init.d
> [root@spock init.d]# ls
> cron ibcs named.init nfsfs skeleton
> functions inet network pcmcia smb
> halt keytable news sendmail.init syslog
> httpd.init lpd.init nfs single
>
> Leave these alone! Of course, look at the scripts, but you don't have to
> delete any of them. The are called from another area:
>
> Look in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
>
> [root@spock rc3.d]# pwd
> /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
> [root@spock rc3.d]# ls
> S10network@ S50inet@ S75keytable@ S91smb@ stopped/
> S30syslog@ S60nfs@ S80sendmail@ S92ibcs@
> S40cron@ S70nfsfs@ S90lpd@ S99local@
>
> These links refer to the scripts listed above. If you move one of these
> links, the startup script will not be executed at bootup. I created a
> 'stopped' directory and moved the unwanted links to it:
>
> [root@spock rc3.d]# cd stopped
> [root@spock stopped]# ls
> S45pcmcia@ S85httpd@ S95news@
>
> So, you can see I have no pcmcia support, no web server or news. This
> saves some RAM since I don't need these things on this computer.
>
> BTW, you can also change the 'S' to a 'K' which will 'stop' the script
> from starting. Ie. S70nfsfs change to K70nfsfs. Start and Kill??
>
> Good luck!
>
> ----------------------------
> Mitchell Leben
> mitch@smithphoto.com
> http://snappy.smithphoto.com/~mitch
> ----------------------------
>
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