Fedora is running fine but when I boot I keep getting the "smartd failed" junk and have done the suggestions I found in this forum to try to get it to work properly but am unable to do so. However, I would rather just stop it from running during bootup all together. In Arch Linux you can add or delete daemons that are included at bootup by editing the /etc/rc.conf file but I haven't found anything similar in Fedora.

I found where it is listed in the init.d directory and was wondering if I should just move it from this directory or will that cause other problems?

rberry88

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linuxcommand....s/smartd8.html

That is the man page on this daemon. From there you should be able to tell if its going to impact your system or not. My guess is it won't since its failing so its safe to remove from startup.

I moved it from the init.d directory and that seems to have taken care of the problem. I'll have to play around with it and see what was causing it to fail but for now the annoyance is gone.

rberry88

Another way to turn a service on or off is through redhat-config-services, which you can run by clicking Hat->System Settings->Server Settings->Services.

Services that show a check-mark are run when starting the run-level. So to turn a service off completely, you need to uncheck the service and save for each run-level, 1-5.

Maybe your way was easier after all...

Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't notice that going through the menus and it will come in handy for other things.

I decided to just move because now I know where it is and don't have to worry about it. Plus I want to tinker with it and playing with it while in the /etc/init.d directory didn't seem like a good idea.

rberry88

A great way to turn on/off services is to use the chkconfig command line utitlity. Logged in as root, start with chkconfig --list. It will show you all of the services on your system and what the settings are for each run level. If you want to turn off a listed service issue the command chkconfig service off. This will turn it off for run levels 2,3,4, and 5. I always shut off kudzu so I just issue the command chkconfig kudzu off. You can list an individual service and see what its settings are too. chkconfig --list kudzu shows me just the kudzu service and its settings for each run level. The graphical option is nice but you have to work with one level at a time, AFAIK. With chkconfig you can turn a service off on all levels with one command.

Nice one fly, that's handy.