Enabling and disabling services during start up in GNU/Linux

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Enabling and disabling services during start up in GNU/Linux

04-03-2006, 11:13 AM,

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Enabling and disabling services during start up in GNU/Linux

Quote:In any Linux distribution, some services are enabled to start at boot up by default. For example, on my machine, I have pcmcia, cron daemon, postfix mail transport agent ... just to name a few, which start during boot up. Usually, it is prudent to disable all services that are not needed as they are potential security risks and also they unnecessarily waste hardware resources. For example, my machine does not have any pcmcia cards so I can safely disable it. Same is the case with postfix which is also not used.

So how do you disable these services so that they are not started at boot time?...

full article: http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/04/en...ng_01.html

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